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@NSF NOIRLab is the preeminent US national center for ground-based, nighttime optical and infrared astronomy. Para español siga a @NOIRLabAstroES
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    Apr 15
    BREAKING: The largest 3D map of the Universe is now complete 🌌 Last night @desisurvey, mounted on the Nicholas U/ Mayall 4 meter telescope at @KittPeakNatObs, finished its 5-year survey of the cosmos, mapping 47M+ galaxies and quasars. 🔗noirlab.edu/public/news/no…
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    Oct 8
    A little Chilean mountain majesty. 🇨🇱🏔️ At about 2700 meters (8860 feet) above sea level, Cerro Pachón sits at the foothills of the Chilean Andes, where the landscape changes with the seasons. 📷 Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/C. Corco
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    Oct 8
    Meet the Milky Way’s goth kid. 🖤 Circinus West — which definitely owns a Cure album — stretches 180 light-years across, 2500 light-years away. Its dark tendrils hide newborn stars in gas and dust. 📷: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector/D. de Martin/M. Kosari
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    Oct 7
    🌈 Somewhere over Kitt Peak, there’s a rainbow. This double rainbow was captured at NSF @KittPeakNatObs in 1976, when the mountain looked a little different than it does today. 📷 KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/C. Portnoy
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    Oct 7
    New on NOIRLab Stories 🔍🌌 Using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and AI-assisted searches, astronomers identified 76 gravitational lens candidates and used observations from the Very Large Telescope to confirm 70 of them as real. Read more: noirlab.edu/public/blog/de…
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