The 4.1-meter SOAR telescope (left) at Cerro Pachón in Chile, is the pathfinder facility for AEON and successfully completed its first observing night for the network on August 6, 2019.

Researchers are analyzing data from these first observations, and the next scheduled run for the skipper-CCD instrument on the SOAR Telescope is in July 2024. "Many decades have passed since the ...

The extraordinary image was taken two days after the collision by astronomers in Chile, who were able to capture the vast trail using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (Soar).

The Pillars of Creation is a world-famous photograph captured in 1995 by the Hubble Space Telescope of Elephant Trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula. Sitting in the Serpens ...