(KGUN) — Construction is underway on a next-generation optical telescope, up to 200 times more powerful than the best telescopes used today. The Giant Magellan Telescope's seven mirrors are ...

Caris Mirror Lab. This highly sophisticated system ... times the number of parts of a typical car—is vital to the telescope's optical performance and precision control. The milestone marks ...

"Utilizing this basic physics phenomenon, we deposited a polymer onto this perfect optical surface, which formed a parabolic thin membrane that can be used as the primary mirror of a telescope ...

Peking University wants to build the largest optical telescope in Asia ... resembling the mirror for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The mirror would have a diameter of around 19.7 feet ...

"With Webb's mirrors exposed to space, we expected that occasional micrometeoroid impacts would gracefully degrade telescope performance over time," said Lee Feinberg, Webb optical telescope ...

The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, which includes a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror, nine additional mirrors, and supporting structures and ...

European astronomers are planning to build an optical telescope that is four times as big as any in existence. With a main mirror around 42m-wide, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will allow remote ...

The primary mirror, M1, is the largest mirror ever made for an optical telescope. “It’s 39m [128ft] in diameter, made up of [798] hexagonal mirror segments, aligned so that it behaves as a ...

Atop Mount Graham sits the world’s largest optical telescope. Mount Hopkins is home to North America’s second-largest single-mirror telescope. And Kitt Peak contains the continent’s largest ...

Originally, the telescope was an optical instrument much like a spyglass, using lenses, mirrors, or some combination of the two. Today, the term "telescope" describes a wide range of instruments ...

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...