"Liquid mirror telescopes are of interest to ... are made of a much thinner 1-millimeter layer of mercury, placed on top of a parabolic, rotating container. Gravity pulls down on the liquid ...

use humongous glass mirrors that have been carefully ground into a perfect parabola, the shape needed to focus light in a reflecting telescope. LMTs work by rotating a liquid—typically mercury ...

Today’s 8-meter class, optical telescope mirrors are such expensive ... liquid mirrors must rotate. When rotating, the forces of nature keep the thin layer of liquid mercury in the shape of ...

Now, a novel instrument has joined the race to unravel cosmic mysteries — the International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), which uses a rotating pan of liquid mercury as its primary mirror ...

But LAMA is a liquid mirror telescope that will gather light from the stars using 2000 litres of mercury. The metal will swill around in 18 shallow rotating dishes, each one 12 metres across.

Using a rotating dish of reflective liquid as ... Wood built several working mercury-mirror telescopes in the early 1900s. Still, the earliest LMTs were beset with problems. They couldn't maintain ...

Rather than using mercury, the study proposes using a ferrofluid. Ferrofluid mirrors have been used in some liquid mirror ...

Most telescopes use glass mirrors, but as the ILMT's name suggests, its mirror is made from a thin layer of liquid mercury that floats on 10 microns of compressed air and rotates every eight seconds.

These mirrors, which could be scaled up to the sizes needed in space telescopes, were created by using chemical vapor deposition to grow membrane mirrors on a rotating liquid inside a vacuum chamber.

"Liquid mirror telescopes are of interest to ... are made of a much thinner 1-millimeter layer of mercury, placed on top of a parabolic, rotating container. Gravity pulls down on the liquid ...

A backside view of the International Liquid Mirror Telescope mirror (rotating over the air bearing, which is covered with a plexiglass box on the base) with yellow safety pillars. The mercury ...

[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from ... The big problem with the early telescope is that it used mercury. Mercury is really bad for people and ...