Initial Summary of the Ground-based O/IR System Roadmap Committee’s Survey of the Community Now Available
The image above is from the Ground-based System Roadmap Committee’s summary of the results from their November 2011 survey of the community’s use of the U.S. System of O/IR facilities. Shown are the US telescopes used by more than 3% of the approximate 1000 U.S. based survey respondents. The size of each ellipse represents the number of users, while the thickness of the lines between telescopes is proportional to the number of common users. Further details about this figure and the entire survey may be found on the System Roadmap Committee page.
Light echoes from dust in the vicinity of the massive binary star system Eta Carina are reported by a team of astronomers: the echo was first seen in images from the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope.
Join us for the 2012 Gemini Science Meeting in San Francisco, California, July 17-20, where current Gemini results and future plans will be discussed.
Join the international star-hunt campaign, GLOBE at Night, February 12-21, 2012. Use a smart phone to submit sky brightness in real time! Visit globeatnight.org.
NOAO astronomers contribute to discovery of very distant, bright galaxy
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