The prototype Schwarschild-Couder telescope detects its first gamma-ray source!

With observations performed only one year after first light, the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, an innovative dual-mirror gamma-ray telescope, detected its first source!
Our group at Barnard and Columbia contributed to this milestone for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy: check this out!

https://barnard.edu/news/professor-reshmi-mukherjee-and-colleagues-help-prove-viability-prototype-gamma-ray-telescope

https://news.columbia.edu/scientists-detect-crab-nebula-using-gamma-ray-telescope