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Dr. Sian Proctor with a cohort of Space Camp scholars. Celebrating Inspiration4 Mission's 5th Anniversary with SpaceCamp Scholarships Five years ago, the first all-civilian spaceflight orbited Earth. Today, the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission pilot, Dr. Sian

An inside look at unique careers in STEM In each installment of our "10 Questions" blog series, readers will meet a staff member from AUI or one of its managed facilities, gaining insight into their career journey, what their role involves and what makes

Enter caption and credit line here. Ten community-rooted projects across the North American region selected to receive 2026 Women and Girls in Astronomy Program mini-grants The Women and Girls in Astronomy Program (WGAP), led by Associated Universities, I

This artist's illustration shows the twisted, funnel-shaped magnetic field (represented by white spiral lines) that ALMA detected wrapped around the gas outflow streaming from a young star embedded in the NGC 1333 IRAS 4A. New data revealed this ring-shap

This artist's representation highlights the streamer feeding material onto the protoplanetary disk, GW Ori, creating misaligned dust rings. Image credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/B. Saxton ALMA Captures Streamer in Action Deep Within a Complex Triple-Disk System

This image shows the field around the progenitor to supernova SN 2026gzf, detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026. The supernova progenitor appears as a bright blue dot within the galaxy located in the middle of the upper third at the center of th

An inside look at unique careers in STEM In each installment of our "10 Questions" blog series, readers will meet a staff member from AUI or one of its managed facilities, gaining insight into their career journey, what their role involves and what makes

This image shows the first prototype ngVLA antenna, which recently tested its systems by observing and tracking the Crab Nebula, also known as Taurus A (3C144), the remnant of an exploded star. This composite image features astrophotography by Alin Sosnov

This illustration depicts Faraday rotation in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst. A powerful jet (upper left) sends polarized radio waves outward through the thin wall of a surrounding bubble of magnetized gas called an HII region. As the light passes thr

NSF Very Large Array Sky Survey. Image credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has completed observations for the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS), the most detailed radio survey of