Jan
23
2019
Where is Earth’s submoon?
By hq_news
Pasadena, CA— “Can moons have moons?”
Dec
17
2018
Postdoc Spotlight: Eduardo Bañados
By cindyhunt@carne...
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...
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...
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
14
2018
Carnegie’s Miguel Roth Receives Highest Civilian Honor for Non-Chilean: The O’Higgins Order
By hq_news
Pasadena, CA— Miguel Roth, director of Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory in Chile from 1990 to 2014 and the current representative of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) in Chile was awarded the Bernardo O’Higgins Order by the Chilean Forei
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
Nov
29
2018
Newly discovered supernova complicates origin story theories
By hq_news
Pasadena, CA—A supernova discovered by an international group of astronomers including Carnegie’s Tom Holoien and Maria Drout, and le
Nov
14
2018
Cold Super-Earth found orbiting second-closest star system to our own
By hq_news
Washington, DC—An international team including five Carnegie astronomers has discovered a frozen Super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our own Sun.
Oct
11
2018
Massive star’s unusual death heralds the birth of compact neutron star binary
By hq_news
Pasadena, CA—Carnegie’s Anthony Piro was part of a Caltech-led team of astronomers who observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading superno
