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Loading video... VIDEO: CosmoView Episode 20 for press release noirlab2015: Mapping Our Sun's Backyard Music: zero-project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr) view more  Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld, International Gemini Observatory/Jacqueline Faherty (American Museum of Natural History)/OpenSpace/Lynette Cook Astronomers have curated the most complete list of nearby brown dwarfs to date thanks to discoveries made by thousands of volunteers participating in the Backyard Worlds citizen science project. The list and 3D map of 525 brown dwarfs -- including 38 reported for...

 E-Mail SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 13, 2021 -- NASA has extended the Juno mission to explore Jupiter through September 2025, expanding the science goals to include the overall Jovian system, made up of the planet and its rings and moons. In addition to continuing to explore our Solar System's largest planet, NASA's planetary orbiter will rendezvous with three of the most intriguing Jovian moons. "Since its first orbit in 2016, Juno has delivered one revelation after another about the inner workings of this massive gas giant," said Southwest Research Institute's Scott Bolton, Juno principal investi...

IMAGE:  Elliptical galaxies are generally characterized by their relatively smooth appearance when compared with spiral galaxies (one of which is to the left) which have more flocculent structure interwoven with dust... view more  Credit: DES/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/DOE/AURA Acknowledgments: Image processing: DES, Jen Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin The Dark Energy Survey has released a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of work. Containing data on nearl...