News & Events
Recent MRO News – Noteworthy News from Magdalena Ridge Observatory
- May 7, 2026 – Faintest fringes yet for the MROI – H=10.2
- March 27, 2026 – MROI detects a fringe signal from a geostationary satellite
- November 11, 2025 – MROI observes faint stellar fringes (H=8.9)
- July 12, 2025 – MROI Achieves First Fringes
- August 31, 2024 – Unit Telescope #2 installed on the array
- October 13, 2023 – Unit Telescope #2: integration of enclosure with telescope
- April 7, 2023 – MROI Telescope Enclosure Time Lapse Assembly Videos
- March 30, 2023 – Site Acceptance Testing for the second MRO Interferometer
- February 21, 2023 – February, 2023 – Unpacking the second MRO Interferometer Telescope
- January 13, 2023 – Arrival of the second telescope for the MRO Optical Interferometer
- November 22, 2021 – AFRL Collaborates with Magdalena Ridge Observatory to Further Space Exploration
Recent MRO In The Media – Magdalena Ridge Observatory as published in the general media
- August 2026 – How to See the Surface of a Star: New Mexico’s Secret Super-Telescope
- October 2024 – Starts With A Bang podcast #110 – Optical Interferometry
- February 2020 – Adorable asteroid 2020 CW makes one of the closest passes by Earth ever seen
- January 2020 – NESSI Emerges as New Tool for Exoplanet Atmospheres
- January 2020 – Up All Night: NESSI Comes to Life at Palomar Observatory
- January, 2019 – Precision Work for a Space Telescope (pg. 8)
- December, 2018 – MROI Project (pg. 4)