New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago ... for phase differences by using optical path-length compensators, and then combine ...

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

On Mauna Kea, a giant new telescope ... the largest optical and infrared telescopes in the world. Collectively, this baker’s dozen of observatories has dominated ground-based astronomy for ...

Shaping a lens allowed for fine control over the path of the light ... light are known as optical telescopes, and the science done with them is called optical astronomy. But there's an entire ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of its massive gravity.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ... appearing in 18 journals reported and/or analyzed data collected with ground‐based optical and infrared telescopes and the Hubble Space ...

The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority ... of current approaches by paving a path towards space observatories with large aperture ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

Built by young scientists and optical observers from Observational Astronomy Centre (OAC) and from Institute of Astronomy Space and Earth Science (IASES) the telescope, according to the groups ...