Author Archives: Carol Rojas

LCO joined the Heritage Day 2025

For the third consecutive year, the Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) was part of the Heritage Day activities, organized in Cerro Calán (Las Condes, Metropolitan Region) by the Astronomy Department of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile. The event, held on May 25, was attended by about 8,500 people. On…

Press release about the INNA project

At the Las Campanas Observatory of the Carnegie Science Institution, we share the national and international astronomical community’s concern about the development of the INNA Project. The project contemplates the construction of a center for the production of liquid green hydrogen and green ammonia in Taltal, in the Antofagasta Region, a few kilometers from the…

Astronomer Mark Phillips is named Honorary Foreign Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences

Recognition highlights his scientific career, his contribution to world astronomy and his link with Chile. The distinguished North American astronomer Mark Phillips, director emeritus of the Las Campanas Observatory, was named Honorary Foreign Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences in a ceremony held on Wednesday, March 26. The distinction recognizes his exceptional scientific career,…

Astronomers Observe Recurrent Nova Outside the Milky Way Using Gemini South and Magellan Baade Telescopes

Using the Gemini South telescope, part of the International Gemini Observatory funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, and the Magellan Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking milestone: the first near-infrared observation of a recurrent nova outside the Milky Way. This discovery revealed extraordinary chemical…