![telescope building in the foreground with colors of the night sky illuminating blues, yellows and reds](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/media_hub/noirlab2408a_zoom.jpg?VersionId=SEDDRUrygSOUIC_gXJmjmr6yxBzst6cK&itok=-pDh1mu5)
Credit: DESI Collaboration/NSF NOIRLab/KPNO/AURA/P. Horálek/R. Proctor
![pinks reds and blues within the view of space](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/media_hub/noirlab2326a_zoom.jpg?VersionId=PbZbomECPtVvSktYzkU74NS5jf7aWjjv&itok=kR9dXx_A)
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani
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Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; S. Dagnello
![Star trails over Gemini North Telescope](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-08/NSFZoom_Background_17.jpg?VersionId=0OQy.WDs.C3tLqVKOA.eysUn5h_291lU&itok=FajlVPov)
Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA; image by Joy Pollard
Credit: Giuseppe Parisi
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Credit: Joshua Swanson; Source: U.S. Antarctic Program photo library
![Image of two black holes merging. Gravitational waves can be seen between the two.](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2023-05/Zoom_Binary%20Black%20Hole.jpg?VersionId=JHQgdSRlyUVeUH9Pqj6U7Wq4GHrmHPA4&itok=BpPJrkFT)
Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for GravitationalWave Discovery (OzGrav)/Swinburne University
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton
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Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
![Event Horizon Telescope - Our own black hole](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-08/EHT_Zoom_Background_v2.jpg?VersionId=6Gm1EfKA4l9_4DJ7o9XaWEgxO9pCHEIi&itok=AM9ABnnq)
Credit: C. Padilla, NRAO/AUI/National Science Foundation
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Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Jeff Hellerman (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported -- CC BY 3.0).
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Credit: T. Brown; Fossati et al., 2018
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Credit: Raffaela Busse; ICECUBE/National Science Foundation
![The Blanco Telescope dome at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, where the Dark Energy Camera used for the recently completed Dark Energy Survey was housed.](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-08/Zoom_Cerro_Tololo_1.jpg?VersionId=Sd5mEu8cPHg3Gxl3v977oZdxh7r6f3Wb&itok=fStROPgN)
Credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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Credit: Dr. Andreas Papadopoulos, AHPC, European University Cyprus
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Credit: NASA/ESA/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M.H. Wong and I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al. Acknowledgments: M. Zamani (available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)
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Credit: NASA/ESA/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M.H. Wong and I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al. Acknowledgments: M. Zamani (available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)
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Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) and team acknowledgments: Mahdi Zamani
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Credit: NSF/GBO 20; photo by Jill Malusky
![Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-08/Zoom_DKIST.jpg?VersionId=vVKMgW02D_MI5NTsuY.wPU7mGyNG6.cC&itok=Kkx3rEH0)
Credit: NSO/AURA/NSF
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Credit: NSF/GBO 20; photo by Jill Malusky (available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic)
![neutron stars](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2023-06/Zoom_neutron_stars_collide.jpg?VersionId=TSYmwN_UjMKOq78S89nn2TEOF9Ew0hYD&itok=dBfsmoSC)
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
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Credit: E. Edwards/JQI