ESO’s new MOONS spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope took first light able to watch about 1,000 cosmic targets at once through roughly 1,000 fibers, built to map millions of objects over its working life

For the first time, astronomers can map the cosmos in bulk, capturing the light signatures of a thousand distant objects at once to unlock the history of billions of galaxies. The post ESO’s new MOONS spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope took first light …