ASTROSAT

Ways of seeing

Vasudevan Mukunth

09 Jan 2016

A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.

Hubble turned 25
Half of the JWST’s mirrors got ready (with no more delays announced ahead of its 2018 launch)
The Udaipur Solar Observatory came online
ISRO launched ASTROSAT
The Foldscope gained popularity
The LHC restarted (and even delivered an exciting preliminary result)
Nature Methods declared cryo-electron microscopy to be its ‘method of the year‘ (paywall)
BARC’s MACE gamma-ray telescope was installed in Hanle, Ladakh
SESAME in Jordan got one-step closer to completion
On the downside, the TMT might not come to be

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