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The SuperBIT telescope spent more than a month being carried through the stratosphere by a scientific balloon, imaging space from above 99.5% of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The BOOTES global network of robotic telescopes is constantly watching the sky for astronomical transients, from its seven locations spread across both hemispheres.
A radio interferometric array in China will form a one-kilometre aperture for tracing solar bursts and will help to improve the prediction accuracy of dangerous space-weather events.
Three outrigger stations are being added to CHIME in order to improve its localization of FRB sources, writes Kiyoshi Masui on behalf of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration.
A year of science from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has brought results that are stimulating a re-examination of theoretical models of astrophysical sources.
The GHOST spectrograph will shortly be available on the Gemini South Telescope for studies of stellar and galactic abundances and, in time, exoplanets.
An incoherent scatter radar in southern China will probe low-latitude ionospheric properties while also sensing meteors and space debris, explain the SYISR leadership team.
The Hector instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope will measure the internal motion of more galaxies than previous instruments, explains principal investigator Julia Bryant on behalf of the Hector team.
An experiment designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences — the Balloon-Borne Astrobiology Platform (CAS-BAP) — paves the way to conducting astrobiology research in Earth’s near space as a planetary analogue.
The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), which will focus on solar eruptions and their origins, is scheduled for launch in late 2022, explain Chief Scientist Weiqun Gan and assistants Li Feng and Yang Su.
Lucy mission’s bold objective is to study a class of distant asteroids — the Trojan asteroids — never explored before by spacecraft, explain Deputy Project Scientist Simone Marchi and Deputy Principal Investigator Cathy Olkin.
The CONCERTO instrument paves the way to large field-of-view spectro-imagers operating at (sub-)millimetre wavelengths, write Instrument Scientist Alessandro Monfardini and Principal Investigator Guilaine Lagache.
After five years of construction, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is nearing completion, but already returning exciting results on the origin of cosmic rays, explains Principal Investigator Zhen Cao.
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer develops the Keck II telescope’s adaptive optics and instrument systems to enable infrared imaging and spectroscopy of gas giant exoplanets, explains Principal Investigator Dimitri Mawet.
Two novel imaging polarimeters are being installed on two 1-m-class telescopes in order to examine dust foregrounds in cosmic microwave background studies as part of the PASIPHAE survey.
Nāmakanaui, a three-band submillimetre receiver, is currently being commissioned on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, report Instrumentation Specialists Izumi Mizuno and Chih-Chiang Han.
