{"id":8940,"date":"2025-12-19T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:50:39","slug":"construction-begins-on-the-first-and-largest-gamma-ray-observatory-in-chile-eso-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/construction-begins-on-the-first-and-largest-gamma-ray-observatory-in-chile-eso-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"South Ctao, we&#8217;re off \u2013 Media Inaf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory has made a double breakthrough in these first weeks of December. While production of the smaller telescopes (SSTs) for the observatory&#8217;s southern site has begun at Dal Ben in Veneto, having successfully passed the &#8220;test readiness review,&#8221; construction of the telescopes&#8217; foundations began just yesterday at the same site in Chile &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.inaf.it\/2025\/12\/18\/ctao-south-sst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on Media Inaf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png\" alt=\"Representatives of the CTAO Central Organization's telescope team and the SST Collaboration, supported by an SST facility at the Dal Ben facility in Veneto. Credits: INAF\/G. Tagliaferri\" class=\"wp-image-8945\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Representatives of the CTAO Central Organization&#8217;s telescope team and the SST Collaboration, supported by an SST facility at the Dal Ben facility in Veneto. Credits: INAF\/G. Tagliaferri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory has made a double breakthrough in these first weeks of December. While production of the smaller telescopes (SSTs) for the observatory&#8217;s southern site has begun at Dal Ben in Veneto, having successfully passed the &#8220;test readiness review,&#8221; construction of the telescopes&#8217; foundations began just yesterday at the same site in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-ctao-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png",1140,760,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png",150,100,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png",300,200,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png",768,512,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png",1024,683,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png",1140,760,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cta-si-parte-MediaInaf-eng.png",1140,760,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory has made a double breakthrough in these first weeks of December. While production of the smaller telescopes (SSTs) for the observatory&#8217;s southern site has begun at Dal Ben in Veneto, having successfully passed the &#8220;test readiness review,&#8221; construction of the telescopes&#8217; foundations began just yesterday at the same site in Chile &#8211; Read the full story on Media Inaf. Representatives of the CTAO Central Organization&#8217;s telescope team and the SST Collaboration, supported by an SST facility at the Dal Ben facility in Veneto. Credits: INAF\/G. Tagliaferri<\/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\/8940","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=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}