In recent years, the world of optics has undergone a major shift. New research shows how light can be bent, focused, and even ...

In 2024, the National Science Foundation stated there was only enough money for one giant US telescope. Now the thirty-meter ...

At the American Museum of Natural History here in New York, I had the pleasure of experiencing both at the same time.

Scientists reveal the clearest images of the Sun’s corona using a new adaptive optics system, opening new paths for solar ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

A near-perfect circle in a messy universe is a special find.” With those sentiments, astrophysicist Miroslav Filipović of ...

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 ...

Abstract: In this letter, we demonstrate the limitations for 1 /spl times/ N free space optical switch with a moving macro-lens. We use a deformable mirror to overcome these limitations. The adaptive ...

Abstract: A multilayered 3-D optical circuit is fabricated using mirror-embedded waveguide films that have optical input-output apertures on their surfaces. We fabricated the surface input-output ...

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

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

"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," ...