New on NOIRLab Stories 🔍🌌 Using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and AI-assisted searches, astronomers identified 76 gravitational lens candidates and used observations from the Very Large Telescope to confirm 70 of them as real. Read more: noirlab.edu/public/blog/desi…

Unlock the universe with NSF's @NOIRLabAstro datalab archival data! Take a look at our vast catalog of images, spectra, and survey data that may help accelerate your discovery 🔗 datalab.noirlab.edu/

🌌 Looking back 12 billion years! Data from NSF's @NOIRLabAstro Víctor Blanco telescope has revealed COSMOS-z3.1-A, a rare proto-supercluster containing 10 developing galaxy groups. 🔗 universetoday.com/articles/a…

NSF @NOIRLabAstro The Sun: Our Living Star is now available as an automated Science On a Sphere show. See details here: noirlab.edu/public/announcem…

NSF's @NOIRLabAstro @usngo will be hosting a online dragons data reduction session on Oct. 6 (10AM MST) and 7 (6PM MST). Sign up here- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

@GeminiObs FT review process has new guidelines on the use of AI, to ensure the confidentiality of each proposal. Please review them here- gemini.edu/observing/phase-i…

The deadline for submission of @NOIRLabAstro proposals is later today, at 11:59PM MST. Good luck!

🚨 @GeminiObs South is back on sky! 🔭 After the severe storm, intense recovery efforts allow us resume telescope operations. 🌌 Link- gemini.edu/news/science-oper…

One year in, the @NSF–DOE @VRubinObs is transforming how we see the Universe. 🔭✨ From galaxies to asteroids and nightly alerts, Read more in this featured Science article-sciencefocus.com/space/vera-…

📢 NSF's @NOIRLabastro Call for Proposals is now open! Have a science case that needs time on NOIRLab facilities? Now is the time to turn your ideas into an observing proposal. 🔭 For details: noirlab.edu/science/observin…

⚠️ @GeminiObs GMOS-N users: a known hot column on amplifier 5 has become more prominent following the 15 August 2026 preventative thermal cycle. Read more gemini.edu/news/instrument-a…

@NOIRLabAstro's Chilean observatories are close to normal operations following the severe July storms. 🔭 SOAR and the Blanco 4-meter Telescope have resumed science operations. 🛠️ @VRubinObs and @GeminiObs South are into scheduled maintenance. 🔗noirlab.edu/science/news/ann…