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Mar

2017

Las Campanas Observations: Autumnal Equinox 2017

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On the date that the northern and southern hemispheres of our Earth are equally illuminated by the Sun, we celebrate the successful commissioning of the APOGEE-2S spectrograph on the Irénée du Pont 2.5m telescope at LCO. Left: Spectrograph housed in the recently finished clean-room environment...

Mar

2017

Letter from the Director: March 2017

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APOGEE plug plates at the du Pont telescope. Photo by Francesco di Mille. Below: Edwin Hubble and James Jeans at the 100-inch Hooker telescope, circa 1922, courtesy Carnegie Observatories Photographic Collection at the Huntington Library. DuPont telescope, photo by Charlie Hull. Dear Friends of...

Mar

2017

Sagan Award Goes to Committee Chaired by Carnegie’s Alan Dressler

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Pasadena, CA—Over 20 years ago, Carnegie astronomer emeritus Alan Dressler chaired the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Beyond Committee.

Jan

2017

Robert N. Shelton Selected as President of Giant Magellan Telescope Organization

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Pasadena, CA –The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) announces the appointment of physicist Robert N. Shelton to become its president, effective February 20, 2017.

Dec

2016

Letter from the Director: December 2016

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Nightscape panorama of Las Campanas Observatory during a lunar eclipse. By Yuri Beletsky .

Dec

2016

15th Annual Open House a Success!

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On Sunday, October 16th we held the 15th annual open house at our Santa Barbara St. campus. With the help of over 50 volunteers from Carnegie, GMTO, Caltech and JPL, we hosted a variety of displays and family-friendly activities and welcomed more than 600 guests from 2pm to 5pm that afternoon. This...

Dec

2016

Las Campanas Observations: Summer Solstice 2016

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A wonderful spring changing to summer. Our desire for clear skies sent out with the last newsletter was rewarded with a spring season that suffered weather losses totalling only 7 nights out of the past 91. Days have also been clear and beautiful as shown below. As spring turns to summer in the...

Dec

2016

Astronomy Battle Royale: Anthony Piro wins Scialog award

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Anthony Piro, Hale Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Carnegie Observatories, won one of seven 2016 Scialog awards after three days of discussion, collaboration, and competition at a unique conference in Tucson, Arizona. The award was for a collaborative project that includes numerical...

Nov

2016

Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Selected Board Chair and Vice-Chair

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Pasadena, CA – The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) today announced the appointment of Walter E. Massey, PhD, and Taft Armandroff, PhD, to the positions of Board Chair and Vice Chair, respectively.

Oct

2016

Our galaxy’s most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought

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Pasadena, CA— A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year.

Las Campanas Observations: Autumnal Equinox 2017

Letter from the Director: March 2017

Sagan Award Goes to Committee Chaired by Carnegie’s Alan Dressler

Robert N. Shelton Selected as President of Giant Magellan Telescope Organization

Letter from the Director: December 2016

15th Annual Open House a Success!

Las Campanas Observations: Summer Solstice 2016

Astronomy Battle Royale: Anthony Piro wins Scialog award

Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Selected Board Chair and Vice-Chair

Our galaxy’s most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought

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