Europe could be a ‘haven’ for US researchers, says ERC president The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White ...

Europe could be a ‘haven’ for US researchers, says ERC (European Research Council) president Maria Leptin

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The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (L...

For your consideration: the full SO Large Aperture Telescope arxiv.org/abs/2503.00636

The Fulbright scholarship for US citizens to visit countries like Chile is now open 🇨🇱🌌

There is a specific category for astronomy you can check here:
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Large crane lifting mirror into a telescope

The M1 mirror (primary) being lifted into the Simons Observatory LAT telescope. #cosmology

Radiotelescope mirror composed of 77 individual aluminum panels

First light? The LAT M1 mirror exposed to the sky for the first time in Chile after opening the shipping box. If the weather cooperates it could be installed in the telescope today. #cosmology @simonsobs.bsky.social

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WISE is now in a 196x203 km orbit - just below 200 km!
It hasn't much more time.
The HgCdTe detectors worked great until we stopped observing at the end of July, and all the spacecraft systems were working when we turned off the transmitters on 8 Aug.
'Twas a great robot observatory for 14.7 years.