For space fans, June has something extra to enjoy, as NASA recently released “Cosmic Dawn,” a new “intimate access” ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

diameter mirror. The thin lens allowed the team to design a lighter, cheaper telescope, which they named the Nautilus Space Observatory. Daniel Apai/University of Arizona, CC BY-ND Finally ...

The teams behind two potential new space telescopes have embarked on their final design studies as they go ... actively controlled beam-steering mirrors called "two-axis focal-plane choppers." ...

diameter mirror. The thin lens allowed the team to design a lighter, cheaper telescope, which they named the Nautilus Space Observatory. Daniel Apai/University of Arizona, CC BY-ND Finally, since a ...

But instead of creating a solid telescope mirror, they’re looking toward using ... They followed that up in 2022 with a new design, twice the size and incorporating a gallium alloy.

The heating and cooling process for each mirror takes more than a year. Photos by Damien Jemison, GMTO Corp “For the Giant Magellan Telescope, we did some preliminary design with arrangement of ...

Seeking to overcome the prism effect, Sir Isaac Newton built a reflecting telescope that used curved mirrors instead. Laurent Cassegrain improved upon Newton’s design in 1672 by using a concave ...

“While the ALMA telescopes were designed with a high mirror surface accuracy of 25 micrometers, the demands for the FYST were even more stringent.” The FYST has an off-axis Crossed-Dragone design, ...

In fact, many seemingly great ideas have to be set aside due to ... submitted to NASA back in 2008 for a “Lunar Liquid-Mirror Telescope” or LLMT, may ultimately solve some problems that ...

This telescope’s much bulkier design gives it a lot more space for mirrors and lenses, though. Thanks to this Sky-Watcher model’s much larger mirror and wider aperture, you can get more ...