Dec
21
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
21
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
20
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
20
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
16
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
03
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.
Sep
21
2016
Summer Student Program Expanded
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Gathering for a photograph after the symposium where each student presented their research: [L-R] Dr. Gwen Rudie, Sandy Moak (Pasadena City College), Haley Fica (Barnard College), Nick Diao (Pomona College), Greta Zhong (Pomona College), Mason MacDougall (Caltech), Zoey Flynn (Caltech), and Sal Fu...
Sep
16
2016
Las Campanas Observations: Spring Equinox 2016
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The above photos were taken one day apart in October 2015, showing an incredible spring display of wildflowers near the Magellan enclosures, and the blanket of snow that covered the observatory the next morning. (Photo credit: Mark Phillips) As visiting astronomers will surely attest, the weather...
Sep
12
2016
Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe
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Pasadena, CA— Quasars are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous galaxies, accreting matter.
Sep
07
2016
Reconciling dwarf galaxies with dark matter
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Washington, DC— Dwarf galaxies are enigmas wrapped in riddles. Although they are the smallest galaxies, they represent some of the biggest mysteries about our universe.
