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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

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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

Edward Gomez using 3 different-sized balls to demonstrate the science behind a supernova explosion at Hong Kong Science Festival.

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Edward Gomez
17 Sep 2021

Education Director

This image depicts a young star named GM Aur eating up gas and dust particles of a protoplanetary disk, which is represented by the green material surrounding the bright star. Image by M. M. Romanova

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Infant Star Observed by LCO Telescopes
Sandy Seale | 08 Sep 2021

Undergraduate physics students from South Africa attending a workshop in South Africa using LCO data, hosted by Global Sky Partner AstroLab. With AstroLab’s workshops these students now have astronomy curriculum in their universities.

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Worldwide Astronomy Education Program will Expand its Reach with Major Grant
Sandy Seale | 27 Aug 2021

The fastest asteroid in the Solar System has been discovered by NOIRLab using the Dark Energy Camera in Chile — the Sun’s new nearest neighbor. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

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Fastest Orbiting Asteroid Observed by LCO Telescopes
Sandy Seale | 23 Aug 2021

A Night View of the New 1m Telescope from its Dome at Teide Observatory. Image Credit: LCO.

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Two New Telescopes See First Light in Tenerife
Sandy Seale | 12 Aug 2021

Twilight at Rubin Observatory, April, 2021. Cerro Pachón, Chile. Image Credit: Rubin Observatory / NSF / AURA

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Heising-Simons Foundation Grant Will Fund Equity and Excellence in Science
Sandy Seale | 05 Aug 2021

Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as seen in a synthetic color composite image made with the Las Cumbres Observatory 1-meter telescope at Sutherland, South Africa, on 22 June 2021. The diffuse cloud is the comet’s coma. Credit: LOOK/LCO

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LCO Discovers Activity on Largest Comet Ever Found
Sandy Seale | 14 Jul 2021

Las Cumbres Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope color composite of the electron-capture supernova 2018zd (the large white dot on the right) and the host starburst galaxy NGC 2146 (toward the left). Credit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale; LCO

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A New Type of Supernova Illuminates an Old Mystery
Sandy Seale | 28 Jun 2021

Todd Henderson on the job at Las Cumbres Observatory

People of LCO
Todd Henderson
19 May 2021

Mechanical Project Engineer

Carole East with a Naxi tribe woman at the Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China.

People of LCO
Carole East
08 Apr 2021

Finance and Contracts Manager

SN 2011fe in the galaxy M101 is a Type Ia supernova, the type used as standard candles.  This composite image was created from data taken by Las Cumbres Observatory and the Palomar Transient Factory.  Credit: BJ Fulton / LCO / PTF.

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LCO Scientists Use Supernovae to Make a New Measurement of the Hubble Constant
Sandy Seale | 16 Mar 2021

Students participating in the 2020 HI STAR program, through a Zoom meeting. Photo credit: Carolyn Kaichi.

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HI STAR Student Program in Maui Excels in Research
Sandy Seale | 16 Feb 2021

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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LCO Commissions New Multi-Channel Instrument
Sandy Seale | 26 Jan 2021

Students at LCO's Camp Cosmos science camp

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Global Sky Partners named as one of the most innovative educational projects in the world
Edward Gomez | 04 Nov 2020

Dr. Edward Gomez leads a physics demonstration with students in Hong Kong.

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Dr. Edward Gomez of Las Cumbres Observatory Wins the 2020 Lise Meitner Medal
Sandy Seale | 29 Oct 2020
The Las Cumbres Observatory Education Director, Dr. Edward Gomez, has been awarded the 2020 Lise Meitner Silver Subject medal by the Institute of Physics “for substantial contributions to physics engagement and raising aspirations of children via pub

Tidal Disruption Event

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LCO Telescopes Observe a Star Being Shredded by a Supermassive Black Hole
Sandy Seale | 21 Oct 2020

Figure: Satellite trails observed in LCO data are removed using Python software written by Stanford Online High School student Owen Dugan (work to be presented at the 2021 SAS meeting).

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Stanford Online High School Students Use LCO Data in Astronomical Research
Sandy Seale | 30 Sep 2020

Wilson Chau (left) and Holden Suzuki, 8th graders at Maui Waena Intermediate School

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Maui Students Use LCO to Perform Cutting-Edge Astronomy
Sandy Seale | 18 Sep 2020