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LCO image opened in AstroImageJ and annotated to indicate the locations of the stars in a tertiary system. The position angle and separation of the A and C components were measured in this study, see work below by Slown, Freed, & Brazzle.

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Asteroid 2020 OO1, image courtesy of University of Hawai’i Institute for Astronomy HI STAR program.

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LCO 2m and 1m telescope enclosures at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.

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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

kiosk

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Edward Gomez | 03 Feb 2020

As 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

A student in the West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers in Nigeria learns how to use a telescope.

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Sandy Seale | 08 Dec 2019

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

AstroLab attendees

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Edward Gomez | 02 Dec 2019

Global Sky Partners 2020 program welcomes new, exciting projects and the return of highly successful ones

Artist's illustration of two merging neutron stars. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet.

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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).

The Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR), located at Cerro Pachon in Chile. Photo credit NOAO.

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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.

Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi

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Sandy Seale | 01 Aug 2019

Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi takes the reins of Las Cumbres Observatory as President & Observatory Director on August 1, 2019

Sedgwick

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Edward Gomez | 21 Mar 2016

This new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, was taken using our 1-meter telescopes at our Chile node.

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Nikolaus Volgenau | 20 Dec 2018

On Monday, Archon controllers were installed into the Sinistro imagers at our Siding Spring site. These two instruments, now dubbed fa12 and fa11, are the last of the Sinistros to get the new controllers. They will be made available for science obser

Image: 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.

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Sandy Seale | 14 Jan 2019

Image: 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.

Comet 46P/Wirtanen from FTN

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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

Progenitor of Type Ia supernova

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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

LCO Education Director Dr. Edward Gomez teaching astronomy at Camp Cosmos

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Edward Gomez | 13 Nov 2018

LCO Education Director Dr. Edward Gomez teaching astronomy at Camp Cosmos

Sedgwick

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Nikolaus Volgenau | 23 Aug 2018

Las Cumbres Observatory is soliciting proposals for science observations for the 2019A semester, which will begin on 1 December 2018 and run through 31 May 2019. This call is for astronomers from institutions without guarantees of Network time: the U

Siding Spring

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Nikolaus Volgenau | 01 Aug 2018

M65 galaxy

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Nikolaus Volgenau | 08 Aug 2018

M65 galaxy

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Nikolaus Volgenau | 14 Aug 2018

Last week, the fl16 Sinistro camera (on the Dome A 1m telescope in South Africa) was equipped with a new Archon CCD controller. In the nights following the release of that instrument, from Aug 9 to Aug 13, bad dark frames were acquired which corrupte

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Sandy Seale | 13 Aug 2018

Las Cumbres Observatory will host an open house at its headquarters in Goleta, California, from 5:30-7:30pm on Friday, August 24.

Zwicky Transient Facility Sees First Light on November 1, 2017. (Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories)

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Sandy Seale | 21 Jul 2018

Zwicky Transient Facility Sees First Light on November 1, 2017. (Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories)