{"id":8924,"date":"2025-12-18T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:51:58","slug":"new-image-captures-spooky-bat-signal-in-the-sky-eso-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/new-image-captures-spooky-bat-signal-in-the-sky-eso-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on the first and largest gamma-ray observatory in Chile &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, a groundbreaking ceremony for the CTAO\u2019s southern array facility took place at the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO\u2019s) Paranal site in Chile, marking the beginning of construction of the telescope foundations. The CTAO, or Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, will be the world\u2019s largest and most powerful gamma-ray observatory, providing new insights into the high-energy Universe. Its southern array will be the first gamma-ray observatory to be built in Chile &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2521\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1006\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png\" alt=\"CTAO-South time-capsule monument unveiling (Credit: ESO\/CHEPOX)\" class=\"wp-image-8927\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CTAO-South time-capsule monument unveiling (Credit: ESO\/CHEPOX)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a groundbreaking ceremony for the CTAO\u2019s southern array facility took place at the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO\u2019s) Paranal site in Chile, marking the beginning of construction of the telescope foundations. The CTAO, or Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, will be the world\u2019s largest and most powerful gamma-ray observatory, providing new insights into the high-energy Universe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[680,335,390],"class_list":["post-8924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-chile","tag-ctao-2","tag-eso-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png",1006,666,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png",150,99,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png",300,199,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png",768,508,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png",1006,666,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png",1006,666,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eso2521-eng.png",1006,666,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Yesterday, a groundbreaking ceremony for the CTAO\u2019s southern array facility took place at the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO\u2019s) Paranal site in Chile, marking the beginning of construction of the telescope foundations. The CTAO, or Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, will be the world\u2019s largest and most powerful gamma-ray observatory, providing new insights into the high-energy Universe. Its southern array will be the first gamma-ray observatory to be built in Chile &#8211; Read the full story on: CTAO-South time-capsule monument unveiling (Credit: ESO\/CHEPOX)<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8933,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions\/8933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}