The Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has been used to capture an amazing view ...

The Circinus West molecular cloud has been captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam). DECam is mounted on the ...

Dr. R. Chris Smith has been selected as the next director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). Smith will succeed Dr. Alistair Walker in November. Walker will return to the scientific ...

Twelve million light-years away lies the galactic masterpiece Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has been used to capture an amazing view of a ...

The tattered shell of the first-ever recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M.

Chile is home to SOME of the world’s best skies — and some of the world’s most advanced instruments to observe them. From the radio telescope array charting complex chemistry in Titan’s atmosphere to ...

Shane Loeffler in the Andes Mountains near Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. Loeffler's helping researchers study star types in distant galaxies. Credit: Sarah Burkhart The 4-meter Blanco telescope .