The CTA-North Site: Our Northern Eye on the High-Energy Universe

Capturing particle showers from a gamma ray that interacts with the Earth’s atmosphere is a pretty big challenge. That’s why CTA will use two arrays of telescopes to explore the entire night sky: one in the northern hemisphere (CTA-North) and one in the southern hemisphere (CTA-South). In this film, CTA-North Site Manager, Paolo Calisse, will introduce you to the northern site, which is located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, a Spanish island in the Canary Islands. This is the secon