Team of University of La Serena students to recreate the Eddington Experiment that proved Einstein right.
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The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) welcomes The University of Texas at San Antonio as a new member institution of AURA, a consortium of US institutions and international affiliates that operates world-class astronomical observatories on behalf of NASA and NSF.
AURA is pleased to share that Maura Hagan, member of the AURA Board of Directors and Chair of AURA’s Solar Observatory Council, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
AURA is pleased to share that Debra Elmegreen, Chair of AURA Board of Directors, has been elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
While the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope will stare at the Sun to detect magnetic fields, it first has to focus on objects far away – other celestial objects visible only in the night sky.
Astronomers once thought asteroids were boring, wayward space rocks that simply orbit around the Sun. These objects were dramatically presented only in science fiction movies.
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they fall toward our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Just as high-definition imaging is transforming home entertainment, it is also advancing the way astronomers study the Universe.
In preparation for the planned launch of NSF’s National Center for Optical-Infrared Astronomy (NCOA), AURA has initiated the search for an NCOA Director. The NCOA Director is responsible for providing strategic, scientific and managerial leadership, including defining the vision and structure of NCOA, setting priorities and establishing goals across the organization, and providing direction, guidance […]
After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that they discovered with Hubble in 2013.
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