TMS Offline
Feb 17, 2026
Feb. 12, 2026: The TMS system recently experienced a hardware issue with the GPU in the PC controlling the system. A replacement GPU is currently being sourced, but for the time TMS will be offline.
Category: Blog
Public Data Policy Expanded
Aug 10, 2023
Beginning February 1st 2024, all science data in the archive will be publicly available after the proprietary period for that data has ended. Therefore, all partner data acquired after February 1st 2024 with the 12 month default proprietary period will …
Unveiling the population of dual and lensed active galactic nuclei at sub-arcsec separations
Sep 13, 2022
Unveiling the population of dual and lensed active galactic nuclei at sub-arcsec separations is an exciting Nature paper featuring the LBT AO system at work. The team describes a new selection method to obtain a sample of dual/lensed active galactic …
Astronomy in the Near-Infrared: Observing Strategies and Data Publications
Aug 09, 2022
As any user in the NIR astronomical community may already recognize, the resources geared towards near infrared observing are few and far between. The release of Astronomy in the Near-Infrared- Observing Strategies and Data Publications by Dr. Jochen Heidt provides …
LBTI in Physics Today – Unveiling Exozodiacal Dust
Apr 05, 2022
The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, uses its nulling interferometric capabilities to study the brightness of warm dust floating in the orbital planes of other stars (called exozodiacal dust). In particular, the HOSTS survey (The Hunt for Observable Signatures …
Discovery of shortest “Long” GRB associated with a SN
Apr 01, 2022
Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the Universe. There are 2 classifications of these events: Long GRBs (LGRBs) linked with the end states of very massive stars in which the duration of the gamma …
Near-Earth Asteroid Might be a Lost Fragment of the Moon
Nov 11, 2021
A team of UArizona-led researchers think that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually be a miniature moon.
A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our moon, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment …
Astronomers Discover a Massive Galaxy ‘Shipyard’ in the Distant Universe
Oct 26, 2021
Even galaxies don’t like to be alone. While astronomers have known for a while that galaxies tend to congregate in groups and in clusters, the process of going from formation to friend groups has remained an open question in cosmology.
That young but already evolved entirely self-made galaxy
Dec 12, 2020
So young and already so evolved: thanks to observations obtained at the Large Binocular Telescope, an international team of researchers coordinated by Paolo Saracco of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF, Italy) was able to reconstruct the wild evolutionary history …
The web of the Giant: spectroscopic confirmation of a Large Scale Structure around the z=6.31 quasar SDSS J1030+0524
Oct 01, 2020
Using three of the largest telescopes around the world – namely, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the W.M. Keck Observatory Telescope – astronomers found a Large Scale Structure made of six galaxies lying …
