[“CosmoHub: Interactive exploration and distribution of astronomical data on Hadoop”](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133720300457?dgcid=author) has been published in Astronomy and Computing (Volume 32, July 2020, 100391)

The first prototype of the Large Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Network (CTA), the LST-1, has detected the Crab Pulsar, the neutron star at the centre of the Crab Nebula. This observation certifies the proper functioning of this telescope, which is currently in the commissioning phase.

Virgo and LIGO have announced the discovery of a compact object of about 2.6 solar masses, placing it in a range between the heaviest neutron star and the lightest black hole ever seen.

Pol Forn-Díaz obtains a Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral grant. This is the most prestigious fellowship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for senior postdoc recruitment.”

Nicola Orlando, a PROBIST postdoc in the IFAE-ATLAS group, has been appointed as convener of the Higgs Beyond-the-SM (HBSM) subgroup of the ATLAS Higgs and Diboson Searches (HDBS) working group.

ESA’s Euclid mission to study more than a billion galaxies is a step closer to launch as its two instruments are now built and fully tested, including the complex near Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument

The detection of a gamma ray burst by the MAGIC telescopes allows to study whether the speed of light in vacuum is a constant of nature. The results, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, show that photons of different energies emitted about 4.5 billion years ago reach Earth with a time difference of less than one minute, thus putting a limit on the hypothesis that the velocity of photons depends on their energy.

Mario Martinez has been appointed as member of Virgo’s Organization Committee with the charge to define the “new Virgo Statute, a comprehensive document defining the Collaboration governance and the functioning rules for the governing bodies.”

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) publishes a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe ever created, which fills the most significant voids of our exploration on the history of cosmos.

Thorsten Lux has become co-convener of the overall ND280 Upgrade project. He is substituting Masashi Yokoyama, full professor at the University of Tokyo, and will lead the ND280 Upgrade project together with Claudio Giganti from LPNHE Paris.

The AVaQus FET Open project coordinated by Pol Forn-Diaz was featured in the July issue of the Superconductor Week magazine . You can read the article here

“Exhaustive neural importance sampling applied to Monte Carlo event generation has been published in Physical Review D (Vol. 102,No. 1)