NOAO telescopes played major role in Nobel-prize winning projects
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess for their discovery of the acceleration of the Universe, one of the more surprising cosmological results in modern astronomy. The discovery was enabled in large part through use of National Science Foundation (NSF) facilities operated by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) with head quarters in Tucson, Arizona and telescopes in Arizona and Chile.