An exciting new instrument, a spectrometer called CONCERTO, has successfully produced its first observations: test images of the Cat’s Paw Nebula and the Crab Nebula. The instrument, installed on the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), will help astronomers probe the mysterious, ancient cosmic epoch during which the first stars lit up.
Read here the full announcement.
Image: © ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit