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Earth Quasi Satellite (469219) 2016 HO3 an asteroid, not Space Junk
At the 49th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting in Provo, Utah, astronomers led by Vishnu Reddy at the University of Arizona confirm true nature of

The LBT gets polarized: First light for the PEPSI polarimeters
Thanks to a cleverly designed “two-in-one” instrument attached to the world’s most powerful telescope, astronomers can extract more clues about the properties of distant stars

LBT snags first glimpse of OSIRIS-REx since launch
OSIRIS-REx is a NASA spacecraft traveling to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu to bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept.

From the Frye Fire to monsoon shutdown
Monday July 10 The night of July 9 was the last observing night scheduled in the 17A semester. On the morning of Monday July

Missed the 2017 Users’ Meeting?
More than seventy scientists gathered in Florence for the second LBTO Users’ Meeting, held at the Convitto della Calza June 20-23, 2017. All LBTO partners

Observatory status in the aftermath of the Frye Fire
Shortly after sunrise – 2017 06 29 – 05:18 MST Heliograph Peak barely emerging above the smoke (Credit: LBTO) 2017 June 29 – 17:30 MST

The big star that couldn’t become a supernova
One star’s “massive fail” could solve a mystery OSU – For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to watch as a dying
The LBTO 2017 Users’ Meeting preliminary program is out!
The preliminary program of the LBTO 2017 Users’ Meeting is available here. The list of the contributions (with their abstracts) sent so far can be

WAVES OF LAVA SEEN IN IO’S LARGEST VOLCANIC CRATER
Taking advantage of a rare orbital alignment between two of Jupiter’s moons, Io and Europa, researchers have obtained an exceptionally detailed map of the largest

A Trojan in retreat
For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the “wrong” way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with giant
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