Congratulations to the PI of our Terra Hunting Experiment project, @DidierQueloz, for jointly winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics today nobelprize.org/prizes/physics…

HARPS3 (the instrument behind Terra Hunting Experiment) was having a final design review today at NOVA-ASTRON when this morning's exciting news arrived. We got some bubbly at dinner to celebrate #NobelPrize2019 - cheers!

Are you interested in joining our Terra Hunting team Cavendish Laboratory, Uni. of Cambridge (UK) and be involved in the instrumentation for the HARPS3 spectrograph? We're looking for a postdoc to join us: jobregister.aas.org/ad/688c5605. Spread the word!

HARPS3 had a big delivery today!

... none of the shock sensors have been activated. Phew!

Any guesses what it is yet? (clue: we ordered this item 2 years ago!) :)

We've left you guessing long enough ... it was the impressive HARPS3 Echelle grating! (optics heart of the spectrograph)

In more recent news, the development of HARPS3 and the Terra Hunting Experiment were presented in two posters at #EASLeiden2021. Check them out: k-poster.kuoni-congress.info/eas2021/poster… and k-poster.kuoni-congress.info/eas2021/poster…

What's that coming over the hill (well, round the corner)? ... Is it a monster?

YES! The monster HARPS3 vacuum vessel is in the lab. Awesome!

HARPS3 was presented at last week's PLATO mission conference platomissionconference2021.iaa.es. Take a look: zenodo.org/record/5565004… (slides) and drive.google.com/file/d/1r8yCSu… (recorded talk)

Terra Hunting Experiment already finds alien life ... our PI @DidierQueloz😁

We had an awesome visit to ultrafast.hw.ac.uk yesterday. Thanks to the great team (group lead Derryck Reid) there for showing us their amazing research, including the prototype HARPS3 laser frequency-comb🤩 ... the most high-tech rainbow you'll ever see! 🌈

The development for the HARPS3 astrocomb is in the news today news.sky.com/story/astrocom… Congrats to our Heriot-Watt colleagues for their laser wizardry! Published paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

some of the tiniest optics in HARPS3. Never let it be said optics can't be cute :) (no optics were harmed/defaced in the making of this image! :D)

A truckload full of HARPS3 goodies is on its way from Observatoire de Genève to Cavendish Laboratory ... exciting times!

The newly refurbished/roboticized Isaac Newton Telescope Isaac Newton Group detects its first Saturn-mass planet ;-) ... HARPS3 has an awesome telescope to install on! #INT-Preliminary-Acceptance-passed #ProjectSoft.cz #robotic-telescope-ops

Check out our recent SPIE paper describing the machinery behind the Terra Hunting Expt: dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.223… and arxiv.org/abs/1608.04611

The shiny new lab for the HARPS3 AIT is open for business :)