A new image released today reveals how Gemini Observatory’s most advanced adaptive optics (AO) system will help astronomers study the universe with an unprecedented level of clarity and detail by ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun's corona, revealing clearest images to date. (Nanowerk News) The Sun’s corona—the outermost layer of its ...

BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems (BAESY) and strategic partners L3Harris Technologies and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have been selected as one of three ...

TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, has signed its first contract with the W. M. Keck Observatory to initiate the design of Keck's Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM). The ...

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 ...

Globular cluster NGC 6496 observed with SAM. The image is about 3 arc minutes across. The enlarged sections of the cluster show the image with SOAR adaptive optics (AO) on and off. (Image Credit: NOAO ...

The UArizona-managed Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham is the only one of its kind, with two 27-foot mirrors mounted side by side. A powerful adaptive optics system compensates for blurring ...

the zone where the famed constellation of Orion gets zapped with ultraviolet (UV) radiation from massive young stars. W. M. Keck Observatory Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawaiʻi Island ...

The new adaptive optical devices are designed to deliver ring-like targeted heating patterns to the surface of the 34-cm-diameter core optics in LIGO to control the effect of increasing thermal ...

On Sunday, the first day of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation ("SATI") conference, Dr. Norbert Hubin of European Southern Observatory (ESO) gave an update on ESO's progress, entitled ...