Recent Media mention list

Students at Armagh Observatory, Ireland take part in a study of Comet 16P.

News item from Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland, where researchers have worked with 2 school children to observe asteroid 2007 UR2.

Goleta Valley High School in the press again. This article was posted on the website of Santa Barbara school districts.

An article about how students in a Goleta Valley High School have used Faulkes Telescope South.

This short article is from Popular Science, and highlights the expanding LCOGTLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network network as an ‘overachiement they love’. Their readers have awarded it a 4 star rating.

Miller McCune (a non-profit news agency) published an article about LCOGTLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, entitled "Project Keeps Sky Watchers in Eternal Dark". It talks about the history of our president, Wayne Rosing, and what our plans for the future are.

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To mark the start of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (which celebrates 400 years since Galileo first looked through his telescope)  the journal Nature has published an article about the next generation of large research telescopes, entitled "New eyes, new skies". 

The article focuses on 4 internationally funded, public observatories: James Webb Space Telescope, Large Synoptic Survery Telescope, European Extra Large Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array.  read more »

In the last 6 months an international team of astronomers have used two batteries of cameras, one in the Canary Islands, Spain and one in South Africa, to discover 10 new planets in orbit around other stars (commonly known as extrasolar planets). The results from the Wide Area Search for Planets (SuperWASP) will be announced by team leader Dr Don Pollacco of Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland in his talk at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2008) in the UK on Tuesday 1 April.  read more »