Dear LCO community: I hope you’re all doing very well. We are optimistic, as there are signs of a flattening out of the contagion curve at the national level, but also pessimistic, as the Coquimbo region looks bad. In today’s report from the Ministerio de Salud, 284,541 total cases of people infected with COVID-19 were…
This series, published on Youtube, teaches and explains about astronomical objects visible at night from the southern hemisphere, in a certain month. Chile is recognized worldwide for its dark skies and its great potential for astronomical development. This is due to the unique combination of climatic and geographic conditions that exist in the north of…
Dear LCO community: After the Ministry of Health (Minsal) announced an adjustment that includes 31,412 cases that had not been counted, the statistics indicate that one out of every 90.14 inhabitants of the country has been diagnosed with Covid-19, according to the number of inhabitants reported in the Minsal’s epidemiological reports. With more than 3,000…
Dear Colleague, Tomorrow, millions of people across our country will celebrate Juneteenth, the date in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Confederate-controlled Texas to announce and enforce the emancipation of enslaved people throughout the state. Ever since, June 19 has been commemorated as the date—almost two and a half…
Dear LCO Community: I hope that everybody are very well and taking care of themselves. Personally, my bones are feeling this confinement. I wonder if you feel this too: I would like to get to LCO; return to the routine of El Pino; participate in face-to-face meetings; see my sons, daughters, granddaughters and grandsons; and be back…
W1200-7845 was discovered through Disk Detective, a citizen science project funded by NASA and hosted by Zooniverse that provides images of objects in space for the public to classify, with the aim of picking out objects that are likely stars with disks that could potentially host planets. Citizen scientists can look through ‘flipbooks’ —images of…
Astronomers using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of extremely hot stars hidden in stellar clusters. Not only are these stars plagued by magnetic spots, some also experience superflare events, explosions of energy several million times more energetic than similar eruptions on the Sun. The findings, published today in…
Dear LCO collaborators, This morning the government reported 1,391 cases of COVID-19, 1,183 with symptoms and 208 asymptomatic. The last 8 days of infections represent almost 40% of the total cases since the arrival of the pandemic in Chile two months ago, specifically on March 3. During May, 67 people have died, equivalent to 22.7%…
Dear LCO collaborators, Yesterday the authorities decreed phase 4 of the health emergency for the Coquimbo region. This means that there is no certainty of the origin of the infection in some cases, i.e. traceability was lost. At this stage, the Ministerio de Salud can propose safeguard measures for the population in the area, such…
Pasadena, CA— The universe is full of billions of galaxies—but their distribution across space is far from uniform. Why do we see so much structure in the universe today and how did it all form and grow? A 10-year survey of tens of thousands of galaxies made using the Magellan Baade Telescope at Carnegie’s Las…
