A multinational team led by the UK's Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC) in Edinburgh has won a €9 million contract to build a new spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...
"One of the rules for building spacecraft is to have as few moving parts as possible," Andy Bunker, Oxford University astrophysicist, grins. "And that's why we have built something that has a quarter ...
The Nearby Supernova Factory, an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists, has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved “first light” during the ...