A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.
- Hubble turned 25
- Half of the JWST’s mirrors got ready (with no more delays announced ahead of its 2018 launch)
- The Udaipur Solar Observatory came online
- ISRO launched ASTROSAT
- The Foldscope gained popularity
- The LHC restarted (and even delivered an exciting preliminary result)
- Nature Methods declared cryo-electron microscopy to be its ‘method of the year‘ (paywall)
- BARC’s MACE gamma-ray telescope was installed in Hanle, Ladakh
- SESAME in Jordan got one-step closer to completion
- On the downside, the TMT might not come to be