Edward Gomez | 03 Feb 2020
As part of our ongoing commitment to inspiring people of all ages through the use of robotic telescopes, we are pleased to announce the launch of Kiosk, an entry-level observing portal
Sandy Seale | 01 Dec 2019
Sandy Seale | 08 Dec 2019
West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers has great success with students in Nigeria
Edward Gomez | 02 Dec 2019
Global Sky Partners 2020 program welcomes new, exciting projects and the return of highly successful ones
Sandy Seale | 24 Oct 2019
Las Cumbres Observatory is one of nine organizations jointly awarded a $2.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (SCIMMA).
Sandy Seale | 14 Aug 2019
Las Cumbres Observatory has just reached a major milestone, when the first night of observations directed by LCO were conducted on the 4.1m SOAR Telescope in Chile.
Sandy Seale | 01 Aug 2019
Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi takes the reins of Las Cumbres Observatory as President & Observatory Director on August 1, 2019
Edward Gomez | 21 Mar 2016
This new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, was taken using our 1-meter telescopes at our Chile node.
Nikolaus Volgenau | 20 Dec 2018
On Monday, Archon controllers were installed into the Sinistro imagers at our Siding Spring site. These two instruments, now dubbed fa12 and fa11, are the last of the Sinistros to get the new controllers. They will be made available for science obser
Sandy Seale | 14 Jan 2019
Image: Artist’s conception of an accretion disk of material flowing around a supermassive black hole, launching a jet of energetic particles. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Sandy Seale | 14 Dec 2018
Comet 46P/Wirtanen as viewed with the Faulkes Telescope North, Las Cumbres Observatory at Maui, Hawaii, on 9 December 2018. The green diffuse cloud is the comet’s coma – the green color being caused by carbon molecules. The reddish stripe in the lowe
Sandy Seale | 29 Nov 2018
Artist’s conception of the progenitor system of a Type Ia supernova. A white dwarf (tiny dot in the center of the disk at right) steals matter from a companion star (left). When it steals too much matter, the white dwarf explodes. This supernova exp
Edward Gomez | 13 Nov 2018
LCO Education Director Dr. Edward Gomez teaching astronomy at Camp Cosmos
Nikolaus Volgenau | 23 Aug 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory is soliciting proposals for science observations for the 2019A semester, which will begin on 1 December 2018 and run through 31 May 2019. This call is for astronomers from institutions without guarantees of Network time: the U
Nikolaus Volgenau | 01 Aug 2018
Nikolaus Volgenau | 08 Aug 2018
Nikolaus Volgenau | 14 Aug 2018
Last week, the fl16 Sinistro camera (on the Dome A 1m telescope in South Africa) was equipped with a new Archon CCD controller. In the nights following the release of that instrument, from Aug 9 to Aug 13, bad dark frames were acquired which corrupte
Sandy Seale | 13 Aug 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory will host an open house at its headquarters in Goleta, California, from 5:30-7:30pm on Friday, August 24.
Sandy Seale | 21 Jul 2018
Zwicky Transient Facility Sees First Light on November 1, 2017. (Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories)
Sandy Seale | 09 Jul 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory Founder Wayne Rosing and Director Todd Boroson, showing where the two new 1-meter telescopes will be located on Tenerife. (Photo credit Paul Clay.)
Edward Gomez | 23 Jul 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for new education partners with projects to run between 1 December 2018 - 1 December 2019.
Edward Gomez | 01 Apr 2018
Applications for internships are now closed for 2018
Edward Gomez | 17 Jan 2018
Crowdfunding science education with comic booksOn 17 January 2018, Dr. Edward Gomez, Las Cumbres Observatory education director, and Laura Sorvala, independent illustrator, launched a Kickstarter campaign for an educational comic book for kids name
Sandy Seale | 03 Jan 2018
Press release from Louisiana State University:
Sandy Seale | 02 Nov 2017
Artist’s impression of a Supernova. Image Credit NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STSci)