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

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 ...

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 ...

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

"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," ...

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

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope offers sharper images, efficient light use, and the ability to find Earth-like planets.

Whether you're captivated by the intricate patterns of a distant bird or the luminous glow of a nebula, selecting the right ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to rise off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, carrying a load that cannot be weighed with conventional scales. When the seven astronauts ride the ...

New DARPA optical power beaming demonstrations using a high-energy laser and a new receiver shatter previous records for ...

The Einstein Telescope (ET), a next-generation gravitational-wave detector ... constantly monitoring the lengths of long detector "arms" using sensitive lasers and mirrors kept under ultra-high vacuum ...