New Technology Brings Space Telescope Image Quality Down to Earth, Offering Astronomical Image Clarity Never Seen Before The next generation of adaptive optics has arrived at the Large Binocular ...
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 ...
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we can take that incredible fact and stow it away and largely ...
The University of Arizona’s Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme instrument, combined with a six-and-a-half meter ground-based telescope, has imaged protoplanets in sharp detail. By capturing images of the ...
Do​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ the clues for imaging earth-like planets stare at us from the faint glow of the far-off companions?
The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope is set to have full scientific operations commencing by ...
A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures. Reading time 2 minutes The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—is the piping ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Schmidt et al./NJIT/NSO/AURA/NSF The sun's outer atmosphere — the corona — has long ...
For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...
Ground-based telescopes have long contended with atmospheric turbulence that diminishes image clarity, and the advent of adaptive optics combined with laser guide stars has been transformative in ...
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we can take that incredible fact and stow it away and largely ...
Dennis Zaritsky and Buell T. Jannuzi Special To The Arizona Daily Star Nov 25, 2012 Nov 25, 2012 Galileo was the first person to point a telescope toward the heavens, and his observations of the moons ...