New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

Segmented mirrors, such as those used on the Keck and Gran Telescopio Canarias telescopes, are much easier to produce and transport, are not subject to sagging under their weight, and form a ...

The technological marvel that is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... golden mirror that engineers are now checking one last time. The segmented reflector has to be folded to fit inside ...

Recently, the European Union funded the project PULSAR (Prototype of an Ultra Large Structure Assembly Robot) through the Space Robotic Technologies program within Horizon 2020. PULSAR aims to develop ...

Future telescopes like James Webb and Gaia face hurdles in maintenance due to their remote location at the Lagrange Point L2, nearly a million miles from Earth. James Webb’s segmented mirrors ...