Kiosk - observing for beginners using LCO
3 Feb 2020As 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
LCO Global Sky Partner WAISSYA 2019 is an Inspiring Success
8 Dec 2019West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers has great success with students in Nigeria
LCO Welcomes 3rd Annual Cohort of Global Sky Partners
2 Dec 2019Global Sky Partners 2020 program welcomes new, exciting projects and the return of highly successful ones
Las Cumbres Observatory to help develop a Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Astronomical Data
24 Oct 2019Las 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 Milestonewith Observations on the SOAR Telescope
14 Aug 2019Las 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 Names Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi New Director
1 Aug 2019Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi takes the reins of Las Cumbres Observatory as President & Observatory Director on August 1, 2019
LCO works with NASA and the International Space Station in Black Hole Discovery
14 Jan 2019Image: 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.
LCO Builds New Instrument to Study December Comet
14 Dec 2018Comet 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
29 Nov 2018Artist’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
Las Cumbres Observatory Welcomes 2019 Education Partners
13 Nov 2018LCO Education Director Dr. Edward Gomez teaching astronomy at Camp Cosmos
LCO will host Professor Tabby Boyajian at Open House on August 24
13 Aug 2018Las Cumbres Observatory will host an open house at its headquarters in Goleta, California, from 5:30-7:30pm on Friday, August 24.
Announcing MARS (Make Alerts Really Simple) mars.lco.global
21 Jul 2018Zwicky Transient Facility Sees First Light on November 1, 2017. (Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories)
Las Cumbres Observatory Receives a $4,880,000 Grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Build Two New Telescopes
9 Jul 2018Las 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.)
Crowdfunding campaign to send science comic books to children around the world
17 Jan 2018Crowdfunding 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
New Data Debunks Alien Megastructure Theory on the ‘Most Mysterious Star in the Universe’
3 Jan 2018Press release from Louisiana State University:
Las Cumbres Astronomers Discover a Star That Would Not Die
2 Nov 2017Artist’s impression of a Supernova. Image Credit NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STSci)
Las Cumbres Observatory Launches Global Education Program
26 Oct 2017Telescope network based in California donates 1,000 hours of observation time to new education partners across the globeLas Cumbres Observatory (LCO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new education program that will start on December 1, 2017
Astronomers use Global Telescope Network to Catch a Fleeting Kilonova for the First Time
16 Oct 2017Las Cumbres Observatory astronomers were part of an international group of scientists who discovered and made some of the first observations of a kilonova, a new type of explosion in space. This marks the first time in history that an astronomical ph
LCO astronomers help track close-approaching asteroid 2012 TC4
12 Oct 2017(Animation depicting the flyby of small asteroid 2012 TC4 as it passes under Earth. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)