Nighttime composite image of the SKA combining all elements in South Africa and Australia. Credit: SKAO, ICRAR, SARAO Published at: https://www.skatelescope.org/news/skao-is-born/ SKAO Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK, Thursday 4 February 2021 – The SKA [...]
El Comité Directivo y la Oficina de Coordinación de la RIA comparten palabra por palabra los deseos de la presidencia de la SEA Carta de la Junta Directiva de la SEA a [...]
The Time Allocation Committee (CAT) on the Canarian Observatories announces the list of proposals recommended by the Spanish night Time Allocation Committee (CAT) for telescopes GTC, TNG, NOT, LT, Mercator and [...]
MEGARA (Multi Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía) is an optical (3650 - 9750Å), fibre-fed, medium-high spectral resolution (R = 6000, 12000, 20000) instrument for the GTC 10.4m telescope, in operation since [...]
The Gaia Early Data Release 3 will take place on 3 December 2020 - 12:00 CET Several events are organized on the day of the release, for which more information is given below. Due [...]
In October 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA) unexpectedly cancelled the ESA Medium Class M5 mission candidate SPICA (SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics) (press release): The European Space Agency (ESA) and the [...]
Ariel was selected in 2018 as the fourth medium-class science mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision plan. It was ‘adopted’ by ESA during the Agency’s Science Programme Committee meeting on 12 November. ESA’s exoplanet mission [...]
The J-PLUS DR2 Data Release (July 2020) (J-PLUS-DR2) comprises 1088 J-PLUS fields observed in twelve optical bands amounting to 2176deg2. J-PLUS DR2 is based on images collected from November 2015 to February 2020 by [...]
The exceptional circumstances imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic led to the suspension of science operations at the La Silla and Paranal observatories, as well as at the APEX telescope, since the end of March. [...]
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the La Silla Paranal Observatory has resulted in the loss of virtually all the observing time allocated in Period 105 (April-September 2020), and the timescale for a [...]