Due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation VERITAS has suspended data taking operations until at least the beginning of May. We will continually review the situation. Stay safe & healthy.

VERITAS detection of unprecedented gamma-ray flare from the blazar VER J0521+211
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What a beauty - the CTA pSCT gamma-ray telescope at FLWO!

Congratulations to our VERITAS award winners: Tony Lin (McGill), Alasdair Gent (Georgia Tech), Ralph Bird (UCLA) and Greg Richards (Delaware).
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Congratulations to Alasdair Gent (GT School of Physics) on award of the 2019 Simon Swordy Outstanding VERITAS Contribution Award (grad. student) and Greg Richards (@UDphysics) on award of the 2019 Trevor Weekes Outstanding VERITAS Contribution Award (postdoc)! Well deserved!

VERITAS Winter Collaboration Meeting

A powerful outburst in a distant galaxy produced photons with high enough energies to be detected by ground-based telescopes for the first time. smithmag.co/G3kRKD

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©Mireia Nievas Rosillo

30 years ago this week the Whipple collaboration published this paper: 'Observation of TeV gamma rays from the Crab nebula using the atmospheric Cerenkov imaging technique' and a new field of astronomy was born.

Summer Collaboration Meeting 2019: Greetings from Salt Lake City

Check out these photos that the team from NASA's OSIRIS-REx took of the Asteroid Bennu.

Our team used asteroids Penelope and Imprinetta recently to measure the angular diameter of the smallest stars in the night sky.

Asteroids rock! #PunIntended

The VERITAS Collaboration was featured in Monday night's episode of 'Space's Deepest Secrets' on Science Channel, leading us to believe they're also Hollywood rock stars.

The VERITAS Collaboration was featured in Monday night's episode of 'Space's Deepest Secrets' on the Science Channel.

CIT is now MTU - Munster Technological University Nature Astronomy VERITAS To hear more of this interview about cutting-edge astronomy, check out our Youtube Channel here:
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Beautiful evening in Arizona getting VERITAS telescopes ready for observations for the night

Direct measurement of stellar angular diameters by the VERITAS Cherenkov Telescopes:
arxiv.org/abs/1904.06324

Its live! Go to muonhunters.org and help VERITAS Muon Hunter develop a better way to find muons using The Zooniverse

VERITAS is seeking citizen scientists like YOU to help us hunt for muons amongst images taken by our telescope cameras. Are you up to the challenge? Become a Muon Hunter now at muonhunters.org

HESS operations to be extended beyond 2019! hesstelescopes
See mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/

Congratulations!