🚨 New FREE planetarium show! 🌌💥 Today we are releasing Messengers of Time and Space, an immersive show that reveals how @Geminiobs is teaming up with telescopes like Rubin Observatory to capture the wildest, fastest, most mysterious moments in the cosmos. 🔗noirlab.edu/public/news/no…

We're excited to see all of you at #AAS246! For the latest scoop on our science talks, open house, iposters, demos, swags & more - stay tuned with us on NOIRLab Science! Daily updates coming your way! #Astronomy

You should see me in a crown 👑 This view of Gemini North, 1/2 of @geminiobs, combines multiple timelapse pics. The orange streaks crowning the telescope were created by Gemini’s Laser Guide Star, which helps fix atmospheric distortions. 📸@geminiobs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard

🚨Epic! NSF–DOE NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory discovered 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our Solar System! ☄️ Currently, all the world's observatories discover ~20,000 asteroids per year. Rubin discovered over 2,100 in just a few nights! 📹: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA #RubinFirstLook

The sky never stops changing and NSF–DOE NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory is watching with the world’s largest camera! In this 🎥 Rubin showcases 46 subtly pulsating stars. In the next 10 years, Rubin will detect ~100,000 of them, helping map the Milky Way’s halo 📹RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

Revealing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebula as never seen before, by NSF–DOE NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory This 📷 combines 678 separate exposures in over 7 hours of observing time. Rubin captures huge images fast, thanks to its ultra-wide view and unmatched speed 📷RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

Hello, neighbor! 👋🏘️ The NSF–DOE NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory is next door to Gemini South and the SOAR telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile. These neighbors are excited to share their incredible scientific discoveries with all of humanity! 📸NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek #RubinFirstLook

Congrats to our neighbors NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory! 🥳

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory’s impressive First Look images were released yesterday! 🌌 Want to see every detail for yourself? 🔍Head to the Skyviewer, where you can explore the sky just like astronomers do. Pan, zoom, and take your time 🧭✨ 🔗 skyviewer.app

Even remote, high-altitude telescopes like @Geminiobs North on Maunakea can’t escape light from satellite constellations. While invisible to us, they leave bright streaks in sensitive long-exposure images. 🛰️🌌 📷 GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard

❄️ Snow’s back at Cerro Pachón! ❄️ @Geminiobs South and our neighboring telescopes just got their second snowfall of 2025. Not a blizzard, but enough to turn heads (and domes) 😉. 📸 NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/S. Olivares & F. Bruno

🚨 It’s #AsteroidDay! ✅ Appreciating cosmic rocks ❌ No need to panic —we’re watching them 😌 Telescopes like NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory & Cerro Tololo help spot, track, and study near-Earth objects. Because nothing says “I care” like monitoring 30,000 mph space boulders. 🪨 (You’re welcome)

🎬 What happens when 2 neutron stars collide? 😱 Find out in Messengers of Time and Space, our new 4K planetarium show, free to download and use! 🌌 Explore the time-domain & multi-messenger revolution: 🔗 noirlab.edu/public/product… 🎥 GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Double Dome Films

🚨 Astronomers just found the closest-ever link between a supernova and a mysterious fast X-ray flash! 🌟💥 Turns out, some massive stars may explode with “failed” gamma-ray bursts—jets that never escape. 🔗 noirlab.edu/public/news/no…

The Universe really said, “let’s kick it!” ⚽️✨ Some nebulae form elegant spirals and clouds…K61 decided to become a soccer ball. 🤗 Nonetheless, Gemini North, one half of Gemini Observatory, captured it beautifully. 😌 📷@GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

This long-duration, fish-eye view of @Geminiobs North looks like a snow globe, but with stars instead of snow. ☃️The motions of the ⭐️ were captured through the night, along with the Gemini laser on the right, and the 🌙 on the left. 📸Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard

☄️ Interstellar visitor alert! @Geminiobs North in Hawai‘i captured Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the 3rd known object from outside our Solar System! 📷Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech (IfA/U. Hawaii) Image Processing:Jen Miller & Mahdi Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) 🔗 noirlab.edu/public/news/no…

Say it 3 times: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Astronomers using @Geminiobs North found a hidden companion star orbiting inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere, the first close-in companion ever seen around a supergiant star. 🔗 noirlab.edu/public/news/no… 📷GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Does anyone mind if we crack a window? 🪟 Keeping a telescope cool helps it take the best possible measurements. Luckily, @Geminiobs South is equipped with 10-meter thermal vents to cool off when things get heated. 📷@geminiobs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Feeling dizzy yet? 😵‍💫This long-exposure image of Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory captures a concentric pattern created by the stars ✨as they move across the sky. 📷International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA