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Artist impression of a doughnut-shaped cloud that was formed after two ice giant planets collided. Image credit: Mark-Garlick

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LCO detects planetary collision in distant solar system, revealing new cosmic object
Edward Gomez | 11 Oct 2023
Astronomers investigating a star that had unexpectedly faded discover ‘synestia’ – a cloud of molten, vapourised rock shaped like a doughnut- that had dimmed the star’s brightness

Supernova SN2023ixf in the Spiral Galaxy M101. Image Credit: BJ Fulton for LCO

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LCO Scientists Share the Secrets of an Important Supernova
Sandy Seale | 27 Sep 2023

Comet 13P/Olbers recovery image(s) from August 24. This is a stack of the two exposures with combined exposure time of 20 minutes. Image Credit: Alan Hale

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Alan Hale Recovers Comet with LCO Telescopes
Sandy Seale | 15 Sep 2023

Haleakalā Observatory on the island of Maui

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LCO on Maui
Sandy Seale | 14 Aug 2023

Multi-messenger astronomy enabled scientists to observe merging neutron stars for the first time in 2017 (artist’s impression). Image credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

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UC Santa Barbara and Las Cumbres Observatory partner to lead the future of multi-messenger astronomy
Sandy Seale | 05 Jul 2023

LP 791-18 d, illustrated here, is an Earth-size world about 90 light-years away. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KRBwyle)

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LCO Data Confirm the Discovery of an Earth-Size Exoplanet
Sandy Seale | 17 May 2023

Combined Hubble Space Telescope images of the GRB 221009A field, observed on 2022 December 4. Note the clear appearance of an underlying host galaxy, with a disk-like shape. Image Credit: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2023).

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LCO Astronomers Study the Largest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Seen
Sandy Seale | 21 Apr 2023

Graphic of the over three dozen telescopic facilities in space and around the globe that were planned to observe the Didymos asteroid system in support of DART’s global observation campaign after impact.

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LCO Data Confirm the Success of NASA’s DART Mission
Sandy Seale | 07 Mar 2023

Artist’s rendering of a hot gas bubble orbiting Sgr A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Image Credit: Joseph Farah, LCO

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LCO Graduate Student Assists in the Discovery of a Gas Bubble Orbiting Black Hole Sgr A*
Sandy Seale | 09 Dec 2022

Students in a classroom in Bulandshahr, India, joining over 1,000 other students using LCO with Mission Platinum

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LCO Education Partner in India Achieves Record-Breaking Impact
Edward Gomez | 17 Oct 2022

The NASA DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26 at 4:14pm PDT. The images from the LCO 1-m telescope in South Africa show the expanding cloud of ejecta, twelve and fifteen minutes after the moment of impact.

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LCO Telescopes Capture DART Asteroid Impact
Sandy Seale | 07 Oct 2022

Artist’s rendition of exoplanet discovery. Image credit: Astrobiology Center/MuSCAT team.

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LCO Instrument Vital to the Discovery of Two Super-Earths
Sandy Seale | 16 Sep 2022

The MuSCAT3 multi-channel camera, shown before it shipped from Tokyo in the summer of 2020, was installed on the LCO 2m telescope at Haleakala Observatory.

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Heising-Simons Foundation Grant Will Fund New Instrument
Sandy Seale | 24 Aug 2022

Galaxy NGC 1309. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Riess (JHU/STScI).

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The Star that Survived a Supernova
Sandy Seale | 14 Jun 2022

Mission Platinum team at the UK High Commission in India with 4 of their 2,000 students, after a talk and demo by LCO Education Director Dr. Edward Gomez.

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LCO offers the world’s largest astronomy lesson in India
Sandy Seale | 26 May 2022

This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
Sandy Seale | 12 May 2022

Moon Over Us astronomy club students from India, showing their certificates

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Global Sky Clubs - robotic telescopes for astronomy clubs
Edward Gomez | 10 May 2022
We are piloting a new program for school-based astronomy clubs, called Global Sky Clubs to support research projects in schools using our robotic telescopes.

The attendees of the 2019 PASEA workshop in ABUJA, NIGERIA, hosting an outreach event for 3 local schools. Image Credit: PASEA.

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LCO Education Partners Recognized by the International Astronomical Union
Sandy Seale | 22 Mar 2022

2019 LCO summer interns

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Summer Intership 2022
Sarah Rettinger | 14 Mar 2022

This simulation of a supermassive black hole shows how it distorts the starry background and captures light, producing a black hole silhouettes. Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

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LCO Scientists Observe Lone Black Hole
Sandy Seale | 18 Feb 2022

Launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART Mission) as seen from Vandenberg Space Force Base on November 23, 2021. Image Credit: Tim Lister, LCO.

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LCO Scientists Participate in NASA DART Project
Sandy Seale | 11 Feb 2022

Image of Large Red Galaxy 3-757, an example of a galaxy's light distorted by gravitational lensing. The image shown above is a follow-up observation taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA.

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LCO Scientists Confirm the Discovery of the First Moving Microlensing Arcs
Sandy Seale | 07 Dec 2021

Randy Johnson and Big Binocs

People of LCO
Randy Johnson
03 Dec 2021

Network Facilities Manager

An artist’s impression of the Gaia space telescope. Image credit: ESA/ Gaia.

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LCO Telescopes Assist in the Follow-Up of Gaia Discoveries
Sandy Seale | 19 Oct 2021

Students in the HI STAR program demonstrating their work in astronomy.

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Hawai'i Students Reach for the HI STARS
Sandy Seale | 24 Sep 2021