Mar
21
2019

Letter from the Director: March 2019

By swhitten@carneg...
Dear Friends, I hope 2019 finds you well. This year we are celebrating the 50-year anniversary of our Las Campanas Observatory, which we often refer to here as simply LCO. Located at the southern edge of the Atacama Desert, LCO serves as the primary research facility for most of our astronomers...
Mar
14
2019

Postdoc Spotlight: Allison Strom

By swhitten@carneg...
Portrait of Allison Strom
What questions are you pursuing in your career? When we think about our origins, we tend to think about exoplanet science—how Earth and our Solar System came to be—but we don’t know where the Milky Way came from, let alone the Solar System and the Earth. In order to better understand how we got...
Mar
12
2019

Carnegie Outreach Goes Bilingual

By swhitten@carneg...
Telescope Use at the Neighborhood Astronomy Night
The Observatories kicked off 2019 with an exciting new community outreach event here in Pasadena—our first Neighborhood Astronomy Night! We worked with our Pasadena City Council district to plan an outreach event that would reach the community surrounding our Santa Barbara Street headquarters. The...
Dec
17
2018

Postdoc Spotlight: Eduardo Bañados

By cindyhunt@carne...
Portrait of Allison Strom
Eduardo Banados portrait.jpg We talked to Carnegie-Princeton Fellow Eduardo Bañados before he starts his scientific staff position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany. You’ve no doubt seen his quasar discoveries in the news. Now it’s time to meet the scientist behind the headlines...
Dec
16
2018

Archives as Memories: Collaborations at The Observatories

By cindyhunt@carne...
Photograph of drawer of plates in the Sandage collection
We televise rocket launches, celebrate astronomical discoveries, and delight in images of stars and worlds beyond our own. As Carnegie astronomer Allan Sandage once wrote, “astronomy is everybody’s second science ... it’s the general public’s escape.” As I work with the historical glass plate...
Dec
16
2018

Carnegie astronomers preserve dark skies for generations

By cindyhunt@carne...
Fifty years ago, when the first international observatories were installed in Chile, light pollution seemed unthinkable due to the low population density and small size of villages and mining sites in the Atacama Desert. A few decades later, Chile’s economic growth has brought it to the brink of...
Dec
16
2018

Letter from the Director: December 2018

By cindyhunt@carne...
Magellan telescope from the air
Dear Friends, As we approach the end of another calendar year, it's always nice to reflect on all that we have accomplished during the past twelve months. Looking back at some of our science highlights from 2018, I am immediately struck by the diversity of topics covered by our astronomers. From...
Dec
11
2018

Calibrating cosmic mile markers

By hq_news

Pasadena, CA—New work from the Carnegie Supernova Project provides the best-yet calibrations for using type Ia supernovae to measure cosmic distances, which has implications for our understanding of how fast the universe is expanding and the role dark ene

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