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The full staff of Las Cumbres Observatory photographed in the Goleta warehouse. New Director Dr. Gerard van Belle is in the front row, wearing a jacket and blue shirt. LCO founder Wayne Rosing is in the back row, wearing a plaid shirt and hat.

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Las Cumbres Observatory Celebrates 20 Years of Global Robotic Astronomy
Las Cumbres Outreach | 06 Nov 2026

Las Cumbres Observatory is pleased to announce that Dr. Gerard van Belle is the new President and Observatory Director.

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Dr. Gerard van Belle named new Observatory Director at Las Cumbres Observatory
Las Cumbres Outreach | 14 Sep 2026

The three 1-meter telescopes operated by Las Cumbres Observatory at CTIO, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, which is located high in the mountains of Chile, at an altitude of 2200 meters. Image Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

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Las Cumbres Observatory Powers the New Age of Astronomical Discovery: Global Network Leads Successful End-to-End Test for Rubin Observatory
Las Cumbres Outreach | 29 May 2026

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession. Image credit: Joseph Farah/Curtis McCully, LCO

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Mysterious power source for superluminous supernovae revealed by general relativity
Las Cumbres Outreach | 11 Mar 2026

Siding Spring

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Call for Letters of Intent for Key Projects (2026B-2029A)
Lisa Storrie-Lombardi | 27 Jan 2026
LCO is requesting letters of intent to propose for new Key Projects.

Students, staff, and faculty guest lecturer of the HI STAR program in 2025. Image credit: JD Armstrong (University of Hawai’i IfA)

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Celebrating 20 Years of HI STAR Astronomy on Maui
Sandy Seale | 21 Nov 2025

Las Cumbres Observatory 1-meter telescopes at Cerro Tololo in Chile. Image Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

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Las Cumbres Observatory Receives a $3,800,000 Grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for New Cameras
Sandy Seale | 20 Nov 2025

Siding Spring

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Call for Proposals 2026B
Daniel Harbeck | 06 Mar 2025

ngc6946 galaxy

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Call for Proposals 2027A
Daniel Harbeck | 11 Sep 2026

This artist’s concept shows a Tidal Disruption Event: a star being torn apart by a black hole. Gas from the star is pulled onto the black hole, creating an accretion disk. Image credit: Ralf Crawford (STScI)

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LCO Observations Challenge Our Understanding of How Black Holes Shred Stars
Sandy Seale | 21 Jul 2025

Interstellar comet 3I (ATLAS), as seen in a synthetic color composite image made with the LCO 2-meter telescope on Maui, 4 July 2025. The slightly blue diffuse cloud in the center is the comet’s coma. Credit: Tim Lister/LOOK Project/LCO

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LCO Aids Discovery of Interstellar Comet
Sandy Seale | 11 Jul 2025

Dr. Michèle Gerbaldi, March 26, 2025, at the Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris. Credit: Jean Mouette (IAP)

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LCO Global Sky Partners Gain International Recognition
Sandy Seale | 09 Jul 2025

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory atop Cerro Pachón in Chile with the Milky Way in the night sky. Image Credit: Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint

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LCO Scientists are Ready for Rubin Observatory Data
Sandy Seale | 20 Jun 2025

Optical image of ROME survey field 12 in the central Bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy. Over 369,000 stars were measured from this field alone. Image credit: LCO / R. Street / ROME-REA Key Project Team

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LCO Scientists Announce Major Data Release
Sandy Seale | 13 Jun 2025

The AEON founding observatories: Southern Astrophysical Research, Gemini, and Las Cumbres Observatory. The Canada-France-Hawai’i Telescope is one of the new collaborating facilities joining the AEON+ Network.

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LCO Wins Major NSF Grant for the Expansion of Astronomical Network
Sandy Seale | 09 Oct 2024
Las Cumbres Observatory is pleased to announce that it has received a $2,000,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the expansion and enhancement of the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON).

An artist's illustration of two neutron stars colliding in an event called a kilonova. Image credit: LSC/Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonet

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LCO Wins Shared NSF Grant for Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Sandy Seale | 02 Oct 2024

Undergraduate students from Puerto Rico enrolled in the pilot USA Sky Partners presented their work at the American Astronomical Society conference in January 2024.

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LCO Wins NSF Grant for the USA Sky Partners Program
Sandy Seale | 30 Aug 2024

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

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Heising-Simons Foundation Awards $2m Grant to Las Cumbres Observatory
Sandy Seale | 05 Aug 2024

An artist’s impression of a red supergiant in the final year of its life. Image courtesy of W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko.

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LCO Asteroseismology Project is Breakthrough Research
Sandy Seale | 17 Jul 2024

LCO Senior Scientist Dr. Tim Lister is a specialist in solar system science and the discovery and analysis of Near Earth Objects. Image courtesy of Las Cumbres Observatory.

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LCO Scientist Tim Lister wins major award from NASA
Sandy Seale | 26 Jun 2024

Pomona College student Kendra Nguyen won a Chambliss Prize for their research “Determining the Composition of Earth-sized Planets in the TOI-406 System”, presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in January.

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Pomona Student Wins Chambliss Prize for Research on Exoplanets
Sandy Seale | 11 Apr 2024

Las Cumbres Observatory is hosting an Open House on May 2.

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LCO Open House May 2
Sandy Seale | 11 Apr 2024

Maui high school student Brighten Tantisira with Why Look up?, the astronomy book that he wrote for children. Image Credit: Brighten Tantisira

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Maui Student Publishes Children’s Book on Astronomy
Sandy Seale | 19 Mar 2024

Image Credit: NASA and Larry Nittler.

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Researchers Discover Cosmic Dust Storms from a Type Ia Supernova
Sandy Seale | 09 Feb 2024

Artist’s conception of a white dwarf star accreting helium from disk. When the helium builds up on the surface, it causes an explosion, which triggers a second detonation in the core of the star, exploding it.

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A Double Detonation Supernova
Sandy Seale | 10 Jan 2024