Photos

Snapshots from the field — telescopes, sites, and the occasional unphotogenic engineering moment.

The CHIME telescope under a starry sky at DRAO.
CHIME under the stars, DRAO.
Aurora and the Milky Way over the South Pole Telescope and Dark Sector Lab.
Aurora and the Milky Way over the Dark Sector Lab.
Aurora australis sweeping over the South Pole Dark Sector.
Aurora australis over the Dark Sector.
Aurora over the elevated Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Aurora over the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
The South Pole Telescope silhouetted beneath the Milky Way.
The South Pole Telescope beneath the Milky Way.
The South Pole Telescope and Dark Sector Lab at twilight under a starry sky.
SPT and the Dark Sector Lab at twilight.
Close-up of the South Pole Telescope dish at dusk with the Moon.
The South Pole Telescope at dusk, with the Moon.
The South Pole Telescope silhouetted against the polar sunset.
SPT against the polar sunset.
Frost-covered telescopes in the South Pole Dark Sector at dusk.
Frost-clad telescopes in the Dark Sector.
Two students installing a detector wafer into the SPT receiver cryostat.
Installing a detector wafer in the SPT receiver.
A student characterizing a low-noise amplifier on a network analyzer.
Low-noise amplifier development in the lab.
A student assembling an RF receiver chain at the bench.
Building up an RF receiver chain.