Tag Archive for 'Las Cumbres Observatory'

The discovery image of 3I/ATLAS from the ATLAS telescope. Image credit: University of Hawai’i.

Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Jul 4, 2025 by News Staff

3I/ATLAS is only the third object of its kind ever observed, following the interstellar asteroid 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov...

An artist’s concept of the ultrahot-Neptune exoplanet TOI-3261b. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / K. Miller, Caltech & IPAC.

Astronomers Discover Ultrahot Neptune around TOI-3261

Nov 28, 2024 by Natali Anderson

The newly-discovered exoplanet orbits TOI-3261 (also known as TIC 358070912), an inactive main-sequence star located 300 parsecs (978.5 light-years) away...

A visualization of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by the ASASSN-21qj planetary collision. Image credit: Mark Garlick.

Astronomers Detect Afterglow of Collision between Two Ice-Giant Exoplanets

Oct 11, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The collision between two exoplanets of several to tens of Earth masses occurred at a distance of 2-16 AU (astronomical units) from the young solar-like...

This image of comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was taken by the Las Cumbres Observatory 1-m telescope at Sutherland, South Africa, on June 22, 2021; the diffuse cloud is the comet’s coma. Image credit: LOOK project, Las Cumbres Observatory.

Astronomers Spot First Activity on Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein

Jul 16, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers with Las Cumbres Observatory have captured a new image of the recently-discovered giant comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein). This...

This image shows the glow from the GRB 200522A kilonova caused by the merger of two neutron stars. Image credit: NASA / ESA / W. Fong, Northwestern University / T. Laskar, University of Bath.

Hubble Detects Unexplained Near-Infrared Emission from Neutron-Star Merger

Nov 13, 2020 by News Staff

Several billion years ago, a short gamma-ray burst unleashed more energy in a half-second than our Sun will produce over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime....