Month: February 2018

  Astronomers Will Fight to Save WFIRST Space Telescope from Being Axed Leaders of the American Astronomical Society have denounced the White House’s proposed cancellation of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). Source: www.space.com/39714-aas-responds-wfirst-proposed-cancellation.html

  ESO’s VLT Working as 16-metre Telescope for First Time – ESPRESSO instrument achieves first light with all four Unit Telescopes The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has for the first time been used to combine light from all four of the 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. Combining light from the Unit Telescopes…