Current news from LCO
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
09 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’
03 Jan 2018Press release from Louisiana State University:
Las Cumbres Astronomers Discover a Star That Would Not Die
02 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)
Summer Interns Bring Project Serol to Life
01 Sep 2017The Las Cumbres Observatory education team tripled in size this summer, as four interns joined us to work on an exciting new project for elementary school students called 'Project Serol'.
“Shocking” findings from a supernova illuminate the stellar culprits
14 Aug 2017Astronomers using Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) have observed an exploding star slamming into a nearby companion star and detected the fleeting blue glow from the interaction at an unprecedented level of detail. The observations reveal the surprising
Agent NEO taking a break
11 Aug 2017For the past 2 months we have been running an experiment on The Zooniverse's project builder platform, called Agent NEO. We had 2 aims: 1) to improve our code for finding NEO candidates and 2) to shorten the time from observation of the candidate to
NRES release schedule
26 Jul 2017NRES is LCO's set of high-resolution echelle spectrographs. The first NRES unit was installed at our Chilean site in March, and it has been undergoing development and testing ever since. Earlier this week, members of the NRES project team met to
Call for education partners 2018
19 Jul 2017The deadline has now passed and we are not accepting any more applications for this round.
More 0.4m telescopes
22 Jun 2017Three of LCO's 0.4m telescopes, which hitherto had made observations exclusively of satellites and space debris, are now making science observations. So, if you are an investigator on a project that was granted 0.4m-time, the scheduler may assign you
Recent Announcements
- 02 Apr Educational coder internship 2019
- 01 Mar More services at Haleakala
- 25 Feb Power restored on Haleakala
- 20 Feb Call for Proposals 2019B
- 13 Feb No power on Haleakala