The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

Moved to Boston, where he took a job appraising buildings for an insurance company. Became so fascinated with the buildings’ designs that he decided he would become an architect. Enrolled at the ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun's corona, revealing clearest images to ...

Raman spectroscopy uses scattered light to identify a substance's chemical ingredients and is one of the most widely used ...

"The new coronal adaptive optics system closes this decades-old gap and delivers images of coronal features at 63 kilometers resolution—the theoretical limit of the 1.6-meter Goode Solar Telescope," ...

For most of us, mirrors are something we buy instead of build. However, [Unnecessary Automation] wanted to craft mirrors of his own for a custom telescope build. As it turns out, producing ...

That trend is perfectly illustrated by the DWARF 3 smart telescope from DwarfLab. Not long after I reviewed their DWARF II ...

A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures.

The UA announced the gift Monday. Eight mirrors for that giant telescope will be cast and polished in the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab beneath the bleachers of Arizona Stadium — a facility ...

A $4.5 million National Science Foundation grant will be used to develop a state-of-the-art public visitor program for Kitt Peak National Observatory. The foundation awarded the grant to the ...

The 4.4-meter-aperture telescope, led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and situated at the Lenghu astronomical ...