In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.210040, Researchers led by Professor Daewook Kim from The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA consider advances in optical ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a stellar image of a bright star and surrounding galaxies in its latest optical performance test. The Webb team completed testing all of the telescope’s ...

Refracting telescopes dominated the nineteenth century, with the size of apertures rising to reach the physical limits for lens manufacture at a diameter of around one metre. A key optical development ...

When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

As the largest optical telescope in the world, the ELT will allow scientists to dive further into our universe than ever before. The ELT’s 39-metre ‘eye on the sky’ will capture some of the clearest ...

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific ...

Today, April 11, 2006, The Planetary Society dedicated a new optical telescope at an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts — one designed solely to search for light ...

Optical aberration theory remains a fundamental component in the design and operation of space telescopes. With increasingly ambitious astronomical missions and the demand for high-resolution imaging, ...

Peking University wants to build the largest optical telescope in Asia and close the gap in astronomy capabilities with the rest of the world. The project aims to create an initial telescope with an ...

The world's largest telescope is being built on a mountaintop in Chile. It will be able to directly image rocky exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...