A massive gravitational-wave detector and a new solar telescope are among the priorities on funders’ latest roadmap.
“I was particularly excited to see the nature of dark matter and dark energy marked out as key unanswered questions,” says Priyamvada Natarajan, an astronomer at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.after consulting with the academic community for nearly three years, says Amelie Saintonge, an astrophysicist at University College London who edited the final report.
The network’s 2008 roadmap recommended that funders prioritise the 42-metre Extremely Large Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array — both large infrastructure projects that are now being built. The latest report recommends ongoing support for these telescopes. “It's a bit of a continuum from previous reports,” says Colin Vincent, chair of Astronet’s board, and associate director for astronomy at the UK science and technology facilities council.
“It's not just about the big facilities, it's about all ecosystem of facilities,” adds Saintonge. “That means funding computing, machine learning, AI,” she says, along with investment in training.
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