Dear LCO Community, Following the indications of the LCO crisis and reopening committees, the management has decided to modify our COVID-19 protocols. All of them will be effective as of 1 April 2023. International visitors will only have to undergo an antigen test before entering our premises. There is no obligation to repeat the test.…
Since 2014, when autumn begins in the southern hemisphere, Astronomy Day is celebrated in Chile to celebrate the equinox. The event is promoted by the Planetarium Foundation of the University of Santiago de Chile, the Chilean Astronomy Society (SOCHIAS) and the Public Science Program of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation. This year…
The carbon footprint of astronomical research facilities has become a critical issue in recent years. Its measurement, in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent, CO2e, serves to understand the behavior of these organizations and their individuals and, in this way, efficiently manage resources. The carbon footprint of astronomical operations, in general, is dominated by the gases…
eROSITA telescope finds an X-ray bright, optically faint quasar accreting material at an extremely high rate only about 800 million years after the big bang. The latter, confirmed through observations with the Magellan telescopes of the Las Campanas Observatory. Supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies can be detected out to great distances –…
Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), Chile. This is a full time position based at LCO, Chile. The Carnegie Observatories, a department of the Carnegie Institution for Science and a non-profit, world-class astronomical institution with offices located in Pasadena, California, is seeking an Operations Engineer/Scientist to work at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Carnegie astronomers and…
Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most powerful and luminous cosmic explosions since the Big Bang. Despite this, only a few of these short flashes of radiation are detected by Earth-orbiting satellites each year. Now, in a pair of new papers, astronomers have published the largest study to date of the environments and…
Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), Chile. This is a full time position based at LCO, Chile. The Carnegie Observatories, a department of the Carnegie Institution for Science and a non-profit, world-class astronomical institution with offices located in Pasadena, California, is seeking an engineer/scientist to work at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile in the role of…
“Communicating Astronomy with the Public (CAP) is the world’s largest conference on astronomy communication and its ninth version was held September 12-16, 2022 at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. The Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) of the Carnegie Institution for Science participated in it, presenting the work in inclusive astronomy that has been developed in the…
To celebrate the month of science in Chile, during the first week of October 2022 the Mobile Laboratory “Conciencia astronomía” operated by the Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), in alliance with the EcoScience Foundation and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMTO), visited the sector of Tierras Blancas (Coquimbo Region) and the town of Puchuncaví (Valparaíso Region), to…
On September 28, members of the U.S. federal agency National Science Foundation (NSF) visited Las Campanas Observatory of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the site where the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMTO) is being built. The visit was led by David Osip, Deputy Director of LCO; Oscar Contreras, GMTO’s legal representative in Chile and Vice…
