Highlights

Maui Students Use LCO to Perform Cutting-Edge Astronomy

Sandy Seale | 18 Sep 2020

LCO & Sencha: Advancing Discoveries in the Universe

Sandy Seale | 16 Sep 2020

InStAR Students Publish Work Featuring LCO Data

Sandy Seale | 11 Sep 2020

Las Cumbres Observatory Selects Key Projects for 2020

Sandy Seale | 08 Sep 2020

Students Use Las Cumbres Observatory for Research

Sandy Seale | 13 Aug 2020

Calcium-Rich Supernova Examined with X-Rays for the First Time

Sandy Seale | 06 Aug 2020

Las Cumbres Observatory Observations were Essential to First-Ever Interstellar Parallax Experiment

Sandy Seale | 24 Jul 2020

Las Cumbres Observatory Robotic Telescopes Provide Vital Data for Recent Astronomical Discoveries

Sandy Seale | 26 Jun 2020

During COVID-19 pandemic, LCO has continued to operate their global network of robotic telescopes where it is safe and allowed to do so

LCO Global Sky Partner WAISSYA 2019 is an Inspiring Success

Sandy Seale | 08 Dec 2019

West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers has great success with students in Nigeria

Las Cumbres Observatory to help develop a Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Astronomical Data

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).

LCO Reaches a Major Milestone with Observations on the SOAR Telescope

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.

LCO Builds New Instrument to Study December Comet

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

LCO and NASA’s Kepler work together to determine origins of supernova

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