Advancing observational technologies for deep-space exploration.
Short updates and commentary from the STRP team on notable developments across observational astronomy.
The BINGO radio telescope, a joint Brazil-China project built to survey the sky in the 21 cm hydrogen line, has been shipped to and installed at its site in Brazil. Dr. Mitchell looks at what its intensity-mapping survey could mean for dark energy research.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a ten-year effort to repeatedly image the entire visible sky. Dr. Carter on why the survey matters for time-domain astronomy.
ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, under construction on Cerro Armazones in Chile, is visibly taking shape around its 39-meter segmented primary mirror. Michael Johnson on the systems integration work still ahead.