COSMO News
COSMO News
Astro2020 calls out global coronal magnetic measurements as requiring investment
The recent Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s, stated that "To fully address the survey’s science goals for solar and stellar astrophysics, very high-resolution observations in the restricted field-of-view of DKIST would need to be supplemented by global synoptic measurements."
COSMO Site and Design Advancement Updates
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided funding for the final design of the COSMO Large Coronagraph (LC). At 1.5 meter aperture, the LC will be the world’s largest refractive telescope, and will enable observations of the global coronal magnetic fields.
NSF Approves Funding for COSMO Next Stage
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has received funding approval to survey prospective locations for the Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory (COSMO).