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On March 18, 2016, during the MOSAIC kick-off meeting at the Paris Observatory in the presence of the team(*) led by François Hammer, The European Southern Observatory has signed a phase A study contract with the MOSAIC consortium. The multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the ELT, being the biggest telescope in the world with its 39m diameter primary mirror.

MOSAIC will be the world-leading MOS facility, contributing to all fields of contemporary astronomy, from extra-solar planets, to the study of the halo of the Milky Way and its satellites, and from resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies out to observations of the earliest ‘first-light’ structures in the Universe.

The ESO contract has been signed by the CNRS-INSU (Leading Institute of the MOSAIC Consortium). The Consortium includes five Leading Countries

  • France,
  • United Kingdom,
  • The Netherlands,
  • Brazil,
  • Germany,

and six Associated Partners

  • Austria,
  • Finland,
  • Italy,
  • Portugal,
  • Spain,
  • Sweden

 

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