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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

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

The NASA DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26 at 4:14pm PDT. The images from the LCO 1-m telescope in South Africa show the expanding cloud of ejecta, twelve and fifteen minutes after the moment of impact.

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LCO Telescopes Capture DART Asteroid Impact

Sandy Seale | 07 Oct 2022

Artist’s rendition of exoplanet discovery. Image credit: Astrobiology Center/MuSCAT team.

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LCO Instrument Vital to the Discovery of Two Super-Earths

Sandy Seale | 16 Sep 2022

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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Heising-Simons Foundation Grant Will Fund New Instrument

Sandy Seale | 24 Aug 2022

Students from Mission Platinum requesting images

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Welcome to the 2022 Global Sky Partners

Edward Gomez | 11 Aug 2022

We welcome 7 new Global Sky Partners serving audiences in Chile, Canada, Sri Lanka, Middle East, and online.

Galaxy NGC 1309. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Riess (JHU/STScI).

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The Star that Survived a Supernova

Sandy Seale | 14 Jun 2022

Mission Platinum team at the UK High Commission in India with 4 of their 2,000 students, after a talk and demo by LCO Education Director Dr. Edward Gomez.

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LCO offers the world’s largest astronomy lesson in India

Sandy Seale | 26 May 2022

This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

Sandy Seale | 12 May 2022

The attendees of the 2019 PASEA workshop in ABUJA, NIGERIA, hosting an outreach event for 3 local schools. Image Credit: PASEA.

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LCO Education Partners Recognized by the International Astronomical Union

Sandy Seale | 22 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

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

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

Screenshot of Agent Exoplanet's data analysis tool

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Agent Exoplanet comes to an end

Edward Gomez | 08 Sep 2021

After 10 years of service, 6,000 users and over 1 million measurements Agent Exoplanet is closing

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