BBSO News

Jan 27, 2026: Office of Of Science and Technology Policy, White House: Trump Administration Science and Technology Highlights (see page 54).
Oct 3, 2024: MRI Track 1: Development of Wide-band High-resolution Imaging Spectro-Polarimetric Explorer (WHISPER) for Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory.
Oct 2, 2024: NSF SOLIS facility, operated by NSO at Big Bear Solar Observatory, installed two out of the three instruments!
July 29 - Aug 2, 2024: BBSO Summer School
July 3, 2023: BBSO Seminar: "Observations and modeling of the solar atmosphere in the context of Solar Orbiter", Speaker Dr. Hardi Peter, MPI
February 7, 2022: NSF Appoints BBSO Director Wenda Cao to Its Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
October 28, 2021: NJIT Awarded NSF Grant to Open Undergrad Space Weather Research Program
July 22, 2021: Big Bear Solar Observatory Becomes Home to NSF's SOLIS Telescope
Sept 21, 2020: NSF's Study Assesses 30 Years of Landmark Astronomical Advances, Highlights NJIT's Big Bear
Apr 26, 2018: BBSO Seminar: Speaker Dr. Valentin Martinez Pillet, NSO
Jan 10, 2018: SOLIS has arrived to BBSO!
Jul 17, 2017: NJIT's New Solar Telescope renamed Goode Solar Telescope
Jan 9, 2017: BBSO Seminar: Speaker D. Banerjee, Indian Inst. of Astrophysics
Dec 14, 2016: BBSO Seminar: Speaker Y. Katsukawa, NAOJ
March 1, 2016: Second call for NST Observing Proposals
November 10, 2015: Observing Proposals Sought for Big Bear Solar Observatory
August 31, 2015: NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize & Medal 2015 - Dr. Haiman Wang (video)
April 29, 2015: NST Results in News
April 16, 2015: BBSO Seminar: Wang Huaning
February 17, 2015: BBSO VIS H-alpha image is featured in the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) on 2015 February 17.
November 20, 2014: BBSO Seminar: Rozelot, J.P.
October 21, 2014: BBSO Seminar: Sadykov, V
October 20, 2014: BBSO Seminar: Koutchmy, S
September 22, 2014: BBSO Seminar: Oskar von der Luhe
April 25, 2014: As part of the preparation for the Starlight Festival to be held in Big Bear Lake on Memorial Day weekend, a new documentary video has been produced about BBSO. This documentary can be viewed on Vimeo.
January 30, 2014: Dr. Santiago Vargas joined the BBSO team
November 27, 2013: First magnetogram with Near InfraRed Imaging Spectropolarimeter (NIRIS)
September 1, 2013: Dr. A. Kosovichev is a new Director of BBSO
May 25, 2013: First light with Visible Imaging Spectrometer (VIS)
May 1, 2013: New adaptive optics system (AO-308 with a 357 actuator DM), is in regular operation. It will allow to perform diffraction limited photometry and polarimetry over the isoplanatic patch at all visible (and IR) wavelengths
Jan 8, 2013: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - P. Venkatakrishnan, Senior Professor, Head of the Udaipur Solar Observatory
Sept 4, 2012: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Ram Ajor Maurya, Seoul National University
Aug 20, 2012: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Michael J. Thompson, HAO, Director
A movie of Venus transit and several NST snapshots are available now.
June 5, 2012: Transit of Venus. This rare sight (next transit is 2117) will be observed by all three of our solar telescopes. Live images will be available from our H-alpha telescope and also from the GONG telescope (in white light and H-alpha) at http://venustransit.nso.edu/live.html. First contact is at 3:06 PM on June 5. The complete transit is not visible from Big Bear, but we will observe as late as we can.
May 15, 2012: BBSO Seminar. Speakers - W. Uddin and N. Joshi, Aryabhatta Res. Inst of Observational Sciences (ARIES), India
Apr 5, 2012: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - S. Gosain, NSO/SOLIS
Jan 23, 2012: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - J.-P. Rozelot, Universite de Nice, France
Nov 8, 2011: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - V. Obridko, IZMIRAN, Russia
Nov 7-10, 2011: NST mirror re-coating
Sept 20, 2011: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - I. Kitiashvili, Stanford Univ.
Sept 1, 2011: Claude Plymate joined BBSO team
June 9, 2011: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Jiong Qiu, Montana SU
June 1, 2011: More BBSO Images in Ciel et l'Espace Magazine
See new release of the BBSO Blue Book
Jan 11, 2011: New Insights into Sun's Photosphere Reported by NJIT Researcher at Big Bear - NJIT Press release
Dec 1, 2010: Aglae Kellerer joined BBSO team
Sept 27, 2010: Eun-Kyung Lim joined BBSO team
August 24, 2010: Amazing New Sun Images From NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory - NJIT Press release
August 23, 2010: BBSO Image made it the photo of the day of Ciel et l'Espace Magazine
August 12, 2010: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Aglae Kellerer, Institute for Astronomy, Hilo, Hawaii
July 15, 2010: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Luke Johnson, UC Santa Cruz
July 2010: ApJ Lett. published a manuscript submitted by Andic et al. titled Oscillatory Behavior in the Quiet Sun Observed with the NST
Jun 1-Jul 31, 2010: Kenichi Otsuji (Kyoto University) visit BBSO
Apr 22, 2010: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Ali Kilcik, BBSO
March 31, 2010: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Nina Karachik, National Solar Observatory
Mar 16, 2010: ApJ published a manuscript submitted by Abramenko et al. titled "Low-Latitude Coronal Holes at the Minimum of the 23rd Solar Cycle"
Mar 15-17, 2010: Haisheng Ji and Hui Li from Purple Mountain Observatory visit BBSO
Mar 9, 2010: ApJ Lett accepted a manuscript submitted by Goode et al. titled "Highest Resolution Observations of the Quietest Sun"
Mar 7, 2010: ApJ Lett accepted a manuscript submitted by Chae et al. titled "NST Observations of Magnetic Reconnection Occurring in the Chromosphere of the Quiet Sun"
May 3, 2010: BBSO is now officially 40 years old. The observatory was dedicated May 3, 1970.
Mar 1, 2010: Ali Kilcik joined BBSO team
Dec 18, 2009: First NST Flare has been caught on camera by John Varsik!
Dec 18, 2009: AGU Session SH53B on NST First Light and Results
Dec 12, 2009: Ichimoto, K. (Kyoto Univ) and Suematsu, Y. (ISAS) Visiting BBSO
November 12, 2009: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Zong-Jun Ning, Purple Mountain Observatory
October 28, 2009: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Yeon-Han Kim, Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute
October 3, 2009: NST Dedication Ceremony
August 11, 2009: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Jiong Qiu (Montana SU)
April 20-22, 2009: Advisory Committee
April 8, 2009: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Kiyoshi Ichimoto (Kyoto Univ/Hinode Team)
April 7, 2009: New BBSO website is now on-line
March 18, 2009: BBSO Seminar. Speaker - Kwangsu Ahn (KASI)