India’s first liquid mirror telescope is up and running. It’s the first and largest liquid mercury telescope to be built at a high altitude, and if that isn’t impressive enough, it is also the first ...
Before an observatory can plumb the secrets of the cosmos, it must navigate more humbling challenges. By Dennis Overbye Few things in science appear to be as delicate or precarious as the giant ...
Can space telescopes be improved for future astronomy studies? This is what a researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics hopes to find out as he developed a method of ...
The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab’s casting of the first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) “appears to be essentially perfect,” UA Steward Observatory Director Peter ...
Kobayashi and Phillips showed their new ALD system to Claire Max, director of UC Observatories. David Fryauf, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Michael Bolte, Andrew Phillips, and Claire Max (l to r), with the new ...
If you have ever attended a club star party or an amateur astronomy convention, you have undoubtedly strolled through an observing field. Scattered throughout are silhouettes of telescopes and ...
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