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Interstellar comet 3I (ATLAS), as seen in a synthetic color composite image made with the LCO 2-meter telescope on Maui, 4 July 2025. The slightly blue diffuse cloud in the center is the comet’s coma. Credit: Tim Lister/LOOK Project/LCO

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LCO Aids Discovery of Interstellar Comet
Sandy Seale | 11 Jul 2025

Dr. Michèle Gerbaldi, March 26, 2025, at the Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris. Credit: Jean Mouette (IAP)

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LCO Global Sky Partners Gain International Recognition
Sandy Seale | 09 Jul 2025

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory atop Cerro Pachón in Chile with the Milky Way in the night sky. Image Credit: Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint

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LCO Scientists are Ready for Rubin Observatory Data
Sandy Seale | 20 Jun 2025

Optical image of ROME survey field 12 in the central Bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy. Over 369,000 stars were measured from this field alone. Image credit: LCO / R. Street / ROME-REA Key Project Team

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LCO Scientists Announce Major Data Release
Sandy Seale | 13 Jun 2025

The AEON founding observatories: Southern Astrophysical Research, Gemini, and Las Cumbres Observatory. The Canada-France-Hawai’i Telescope is one of the new collaborating facilities joining the AEON+ Network.

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LCO Wins Major NSF Grant for the Expansion of Astronomical Network
Sandy Seale | 09 Oct 2024
Las Cumbres Observatory is pleased to announce that it has received a $2,000,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the expansion and enhancement of the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON).

An artist's illustration of two neutron stars colliding in an event called a kilonova. Image credit: LSC/Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonet

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LCO Wins Shared NSF Grant for Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Sandy Seale | 02 Oct 2024

Undergraduate students from Puerto Rico enrolled in the pilot USA Sky Partners presented their work at the American Astronomical Society conference in January 2024.

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LCO Wins NSF Grant for the USA Sky Partners Program
Sandy Seale | 30 Aug 2024

The LCO 2m and 1m telescope enclosures at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia.

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Heising-Simons Foundation Awards $2m Grant to Las Cumbres Observatory
Sandy Seale | 05 Aug 2024

An artist’s impression of a red supergiant in the final year of its life. Image courtesy of W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko.

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LCO Asteroseismology Project is Breakthrough Research
Sandy Seale | 17 Jul 2024

LCO Senior Scientist Dr. Tim Lister is a specialist in solar system science and the discovery and analysis of Near Earth Objects. Image courtesy of Las Cumbres Observatory.

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LCO Scientist Tim Lister wins major award from NASA
Sandy Seale | 26 Jun 2024

Pomona College student Kendra Nguyen won a Chambliss Prize for their research “Determining the Composition of Earth-sized Planets in the TOI-406 System”, presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in January.

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Pomona Student Wins Chambliss Prize for Research on Exoplanets
Sandy Seale | 11 Apr 2024

Las Cumbres Observatory is hosting an Open House on May 2.

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LCO Open House May 2
Sandy Seale | 11 Apr 2024

Maui high school student Brighten Tantisira with Why Look up?, the astronomy book that he wrote for children. Image Credit: Brighten Tantisira

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Maui Student Publishes Children’s Book on Astronomy
Sandy Seale | 19 Mar 2024

Image Credit: NASA and Larry Nittler.

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Researchers Discover Cosmic Dust Storms from a Type Ia Supernova
Sandy Seale | 09 Feb 2024

Artist’s conception of a white dwarf star accreting helium from disk. When the helium builds up on the surface, it causes an explosion, which triggers a second detonation in the core of the star, exploding it.

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A Double Detonation Supernova
Sandy Seale | 10 Jan 2024

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