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The multi-colour dynamic Universe explored

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The BlackGEM project brings a wide-field robotic optical telescope array with outstanding image quality, sensitivity and field-of view to the Southern Hemisphere to explore the multi-colour explosive Universe, explains Principal Investigator Paul Groot.

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Fig. 1: The first two BlackGEM telescopes installed in their clam-shell enclosures at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in August 2019.

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  1. Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  2. Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

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  3. South African Astronomical Observatory, Observatory, South Africa

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