Tuesday, May 09, 2023

A Day in the Life of an Astronomical Observatory | NOIRLab

A Day in the Life of an Astronomical Observatory | NOIRLab

CosmoView Episode 67: There is more to working at an observatory than meets the eye. Gone are the days of a lone astronomer cooped up in a mountaintop dome. Instead, a range of specialized teams work cohesively from sunrise to sunset to ensure NOIRLab facilities can continue enabling and sharing breakthrough discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics.


Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/KPNO/R.T. Sparks, CTIO/T. Puzia (PUC), International Gemini Observatory/Kwon O Chul, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, T. Matsopoulos, N. Bartmann

Duration: 1 minute, 24 seconds

Release Date: May 9, 2023


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