Using telescopes to spot, identify, and study asteroids is a tad more complex than it sounds. We sat down with Al from Large Binocular Telescope to dissect the tech that allows us to make sense of these celestial bodies.

China sets out to sample an unusual near-Earth asteroid | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Giant Eruption on Jupiter’s Moon Takes a Bite out of Pele’s Red Ring sciencefeatured.com/2025/06/04/gia…

MGIO summer youth program visits EAC Discovery Park gilaherald.com/mgio-summer-yo…

A team led by scientists at INAF has used the LBT to confirm the existence of a fossil galaxy three billion light-years away - a clue to the formation of the first galaxies in the history of the universe. lbto.org/wp-content/upl…

Astronomers discover fossil galaxy cnn.com/2025/07/08/sci…

Astronomers discover a galaxy frozen in time for billions of years: 'Fossil galaxies are like the dinosaurs of the universe' space.com/astronomy/exop…

NSF funds Steward Observatory postdoc's effort to sharpen view of the cosmos astro.arizona.edu/news/nsf-funds…

A growing baby planet photographed for first time in a ring of darkness news.arizona.edu/news/growing-b…

Our Users Meeting will take place this Friday, September 12, at 7am AZ time, over Zoom. Please contact the science operations group for a link.

Proposals for the use of Steward's optical/IR telescopes, including the LBT, during the 2026A semester are due Wed Oct 1 at 12pm AZ time. astro.arizona.edu/telescope-prop…

We have job openings at the LBTO, for observatory support associates and staff technicians. Come join our team! lbto.org/about/#jobs

“Queste persone lavorano nel buio guardando le stelle”, dice il visual artist Renato Cerisola, dunque la sua idea è stata quella di ritrarle “nel buio più totale, una lucina da trekking come unica fonte di luce”. La mostra su LBTObs è al Festival della Scienza. youtu.be/XhwMOrzBf7g

New article about LBT Italia: Current Achievements and Future Directions arxiv.org/abs/2510.24040

Join us at the upcoming AAS meeting.

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) Resolves the Active Nucleus of NGC 4151 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05094

We will have our next LBT Users Meeting on Tuesday March 3 at 8am AZ time over Zoom. Please contact the science operations team for more information.

LBT discovers a stellar stream around a nearby face-on spiral galaxy. arxiv.org/abs/2602.14192

Measuring the expansion of the universe with cosmic fireworks at the LBT mpg.de/26143285/measu…

LBT results on astrobites : I spy with my large binocular eyes: a dusty torus around a supermassive black hole? - go.shr.lc/4bpIuQI