Staff at the U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station celebrated the launch of Artemis II’s Integrity with a watch party. Later, USNO astronomers in Flagstaff were able to observe Integrity through the observatory’s 1.3m telescope. The images in this animation are a series of 1-second exposures taken on the morning of April 2nd, approximately 12 hours after launch.
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Astronomers from the U.S. Naval Observatory are part of a team of scientists who have identified the first radio detectable triple active galactic nuclei (AGN) system by analyzing data taken by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA).
