Sep
24
2018

Letter from the Director: September 2018

By cindyhunt@carne...
Viscacha at sunset
Dear Friends, September is always an exciting time at The Observatories. This is the month each year when most of our new postdocs begin their positions at Carnegie. For those of you not familiar with the term, postdocs are young scientists who have completed their doctoral studies and are further...
Jun
20
2018

Astronomers Win Carnegie Venture Grants

By admin
Magellan telescope at night. Picture by Yuri Beletsky
Five astronomers have won three Carnegie Science Venture Grants in the past year. Carnegie Science Venture Grants bring together researchers from different backgrounds to tackle new questions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Andrew McWilliam and Johanna Teske are collaborating on a...
Jun
20
2018

Letter from the Director: June 2018

By admin
Photo of the twin Magellan Telescopes open at dusk atop Cerro Las Campanas.  Photo by Matias del Campo. 
Dear Friends, As many of you know, I was asked by the Carnegie Board of Trustees in December to serve as Interim Co-President for the Carnegie Institution for Science along with my colleague Yixian Zheng, Director of Carnegie's Embryology Department. The last six months have been a great adventure...
Jun
18
2018

Las Campanas Observations: Winter Solstice 2018

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Exoplanets across LCO The discovery and characterization of planets beyond our own Solar System, called exop lanets , is an area of study that allows the people and facilities at Las Campanas Observatory to demonstrate their spectacular ability to work together for a common cause. Exoplanet...
May
25
2018

Las Campanas astronomers take on light pollution

By hq_news

Washington, DC—A group of astronomers from Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory including Mark Phillips and Guillermo Blanc, along with Miguel Roth from the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, presented the case against light pollution to Chilean author

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