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  1. Now Fully Online, Simons Observatory Begins Probe of Universe’s Birth

    October 22, 2026
    The observatory is making the clearest ever observations of the oldest light, which could offer a long-sought confirmation of how the universe as we know it came …

  2. 10 Simons Foundation Community Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences

    May 7, 2025
    The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 150 new members to join its ranks. Among the inductees are 10 scientists who have served as Simons Foundation investigators …

  3. Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Achieves First Light Milestone

    March 17, 2025
    … achieve the gamut of the SO science objectives, the SO team designed the LAT and its camera to have unprecedented sensitivity and excellent optical quality.” The LAT …

  4. Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light

    June 3, 2024
    The observatory’s four telescopes will make the most precise measurements ever taken of the cosmic microwave background and reveal information about what happened just after the universe …

  5. A Cosmic Merger Over Vegan Sprouts

    March 23, 2020
    The director of the Simons Observatory describes the origin of the observatory, which aims to explain the origin of the universe.

  6. Simons Observatory To Search for Origin of the Cosmos

    May 12, 2016
    A new facility to be built in Chile aims to uncover what happened in the instant after the Big Bang and answer other cosmological questions