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The BlackGEM project brings a wide-field robotic optical telescope array with outstanding image quality, sensitivity and field-of view to the Southern Hemisphere to explore the multi-colour explosive Universe, explains Principal Investigator Paul Groot.
The China Square Kilometre Array (SKA) team recently completed the first SKA regional centre prototype, marking an important leap forward towards a future large-scale deployment, explain Tao An, Xiang-Ping Wu and Xiaoyu Hong.
As the CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is scheduled for launch later this year, European Space Agency (ESA) Project Scientist Kate Isaak and Principal Investigator Willy Benz give an overview of ESA’s first science mission dedicated to the follow-up of known exoplanets orbiting bright stars.
The Faint Intergalactic medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2) is an ultraviolet multi-object spectrograph mission designed to observe the faint gas surrounding z ≈ 0.7 galaxies from the very top of the Earth’s stratosphere, explains Project Scientist Erika Hamden.
The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) is a versatile optical survey instrument that will be installed on the VISTA telescope in 2022, offering medium- and high-resolution spectra and an innovative operations mode, explains Principal Investigator Roelof de Jong on behalf of the 4MOST Consortium.
SCExAO is an instrument on the Subaru Telescope that is pushing the frontiers of what is possible with ground-based direct imaging of terrestrial exoplanets, explains Thayne Currie, on behalf of the SCExAO team.
The OSIRIS-REx mission has reached its target, asteroid Bennu, and is engaging in reconnaissance and early science observations in preparation for sample collection. Principal investigator team Heather Enos and Dante Lauretta provide an overview.
Until now, radio astronomers had to choose between sensitivity or field of view. The new Apertif system provides both, enabling studies of low-mass galaxies, galaxy interactions and fast radio bursts, write Betsey Adams and Joeri van Leeuwen.
Palomar Gattini-IR is the first of a number of infrared transient surveyors that will search the skies nightly, looking for ephemeral phenomena such as novae, supernovae and neutron star merger events, explain Co-lead Researchers Anna Moore and Mansi Kasliwal.
