Two teams of scientists and engineers at Max Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik and at the European Southern Observatory have joined forces to...
First light of the upgraded Gregor Infrared Spectrograph
For more than ten years, the Gregor Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS) has been the infrared spectropolarimeter on the Gregor telescope since its inauguration in 2012...
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is a collaborative project with participation from Spain, Mexico and the University of Florida, Gainesville. The GTC is an...
First light survey instruments for the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre
The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is a new astronomical facility located at the Sierra de Javalambre (Teruel, Spain) whose primary role will be...
HiPERCAM is a quintuple-beam imager that saw first light on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in October 2017 and on the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio...
First measurements and upgrade plans of the MAGIC intensity interferometer
The two MAGIC 17-m diameter Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have been equipped to work also as an intensity interferometer with a deadtime-free, 4...
First OB-stars in the iron-poor local group galaxy Sextans A
Massive stars are crucial to understand the chemical and dynamical evolution of the Universe. Our knowledge of their physics at sub-SMC metallicities, dominant...
First OB-stars in the iron-poor Local Group galaxy sextans A
The study of the early Universe relies on our ability to check our models by analyzing the behaviour of astrophysical objects at conditions close to those of...