Astrophysical: Ground telescopes

  • News
    JEFFREY R. KUHN: “In our lifetime we are going to wake up some morning to the news that we have discovered life”

    The Sun is not the live coal that Anaxagoras described. We can imagine hell in its interior, and we know that there are darker spots on its surface which, when...

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    ROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation”

    He was one of the “Seven Samurai” who in 1986 published that the Milky Way, together with its neighbour galaxies, in clusters and superclusters, forms a huge...

  • Publication
    Spectral Rotational Characterization of the Didymos System prior to the DART Impact

    The smallest member of the Didymos binary near-Earth object system (Dimorphos) is the target of the DART/LICIACube mission, the first attempt to change the...

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    VLT/MUSE Characterization of Dimorphos Ejecta from the DART Impact

    We have observed the Didymos-Dimorphos binary system with the MUSE integral field unit spectrograph mounted at the Very Large Telescope before and after DART...