Webpages tagged with «AtLAST2»

Published Oct. 19, 2026 11:59 AM

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Collage of photos: top left: person in front of a model of AtLAST telescope. Top right: Group photo of members of AtLAST in front of a poster. Bottom left: Discussion taking place in a classroom with a chalkboard with notes. Bottom right: Person giving a presentation, AtLAST logo is in the very centre of the collage
Published Aug. 14, 2026 12:21 PM

From late June to early August, AtLAST team members led and participated in four international and AtLAST-focused conferences and workshops. These events helped promote AtLAST to the wider community and fostered valuable discussions about the project’s future direction.

Image of 3 people stood outside a yellow building with steps going up in the background
Published June 29, 2026 12:21 PM

Un objetivo clave de AtLAST es integrar la sustentabilidad desde la etapa de diseño de la infraestructura astronómica. Por ello, miembros del equipo que trabajan en el Departamento de Sistemas Tecnológicos de Oslo visitaron varios institutos e instalaciones en Chile para comenzar a discutir cómo podría alcanzarse este objetivo.

Image of 3 people stood outside a yellow building with steps going up in the background
Published June 29, 2026 12:05 PM

A key goal for AtLAST is to integrate sustainability into the astronomical infrastructure. Members of the team based at the Department of Technology Systems in Oslo visited several institutes and facilities across Chile to foster these discussions.

Group photo of people in front of a brick building with a logo for the Iberian AtLAST days in the top left corner
Published June 18, 2026 3:53 PM

The Iberian AtLAST Days was held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) on 4-5 June, with over 50 participants joining. The event followed immediately after the AtLAST consortium meeting, also hosted at UCM the previous three days.

Group photo of people in front of a brick building with screenshot of online zoom participants below
Published June 17, 2026 2:26 PM

The AtLAST consortium gathered at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid from 1 - 3 June 2026 for their annual meeting, bringing together around 50 in person participants and a further 20 participants online. The meeting focused on consolidating the telescope design, reviewing progress across all work packages, and refining the ambitions that will shape the future AtLAST.

A telescope dish in a desert landscape connected with arrows to several icons representing the users and the operations principles of AtLAST
Published May 18, 2026 3:23 PM

We need your help to determine the future direction of AtLAST user support!

Image of the AtLAST team lowering the weather tower at site I on the Chajnantor plateau
Published May 7, 2026 3:32 PM

From 28 - 31 March, five members of the AtLAST team visited the high site at Chajnantor to install instruments that will help further characterise the potential AtLAST sites, part of the ongoing efforts of Work Package 7.

picture of a solar flare erupting on the surface of the Sun
Published Mar. 24, 2026 2:18 PM

The Sun’s active nature has the potential to disturb our day-to-day life through the disruption of power grids, satellites and global communication systems. To protect a technology‑dependent society, we must observe the Sun with enough detail to understand, and ultimately predict, these disruptive events. Current facilities have provided great progress in our understanding of the Sun, but the unique capabilities of AtLAST will transform this field of research.

picture of a supernova remnant with overlayed a spectrum full of emission lines and a telescope antenna on the left
Published Feb. 10, 2026 11:43 AM

AtLAST is designed as a once-in-a-generation, transformational facility for the coming decades. At least 28 white papers supporting AtLAST were submitted to ESO's Expanding Horizons call, spanning topics from the solar system to cosmology and highlighting the wide-reaching scientific potential of AtLAST.

photo of the 45 meter large radio antenna in Nobeyama, Japan
Published Nov. 12, 2025 12:45 PM

Experts from OHB Digital Connect are collaborating with the Nobeyama team to investigate Millimeter-Wave Adaptive Optics (MAO), a promising technology that could facilitate unprecedented levels of optical control for AtLAST.