A paper published in the February 2025 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society details the discovery and follow-up of a peculiar supernova led by the GOTO collaboration. Read the full paper here. The dying star SN2023tsz was an uncommon type of supernova that was discovered by GOTO. Known as a type…
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New astronomical transients (ATs) are named in alphabetical order in every given year. The first event of year 2024 is called AT2024A followed by AT2024B eventually reaching AT2024aa and AT2024ab and so forth. A few decades ago there were still so few discovered events that every one had a one-letter name, but now, due to the…
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We are happy to announce that this week we marked significant milestone of discovering 1000th transient. As seen in the plot below, especially over the last year we have been making constant progress with our detection efficiency so hopefully that trend continues!
The recent powerful solar storm allowed us to register Aurora Australis even from our southern node, which is located at latitude 31S. Enjoy the video below! Can you spot Magellanic Clouds as well?
GOTO collaboration members, Kendall Ackley and Ben Godson, put together a nice story about our on-site operations for LIGO magazine. It can be found in the following PDF on page 10: https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue23.pdf
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We have launched a citizen science project allowing members of the public to engage in real-time science! This project allows users to classify new detections by GOTO and help find unusual discoveries, and train the next generation of computer models we use to sift our data. Kilonova Seekers is a unique and innovative citizen science…
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We are excited to announce the installation of two new arrays of telescopes at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, marking a significant milestone in the GOTO project. Within only a month, we also managed to successfully perform all the instrumentation alignments and calibrations, as well as prepare the systems for autonomous operations.
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We had some excitement at the end of the year as the platform at our new site in Siding Spring Observatory in Australia had been finally finished and we could build clamshell domes for the GOTO-South node. Warwick/Monash/ANU team did a great effort to make it happen over the course of the last 4 days.…
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We are enclosing videos related to the BBC story from the previous news entry. BBC news story: http://goto-observatory.org/media/movies/Goto%20BBC.mp4 And “Cosmic Hunters” story available through BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cq8xpx
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Last month we had BBC team visiting northern GOTO node at Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma island and today a special report was released on BBC channel: Neutron stars: New telescope detects dead suns colliding – BBC News
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