What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

Galileo gave very few ... and large high-deformation and small high-actuator-density deformable mirrors. To obtain a good image, an optical or infrared interferometer needs to take light from ...

Paranal hosts several world-class telescopes including the Very Large Telescope (VLT ... They work together to form a giant "interferometer" that allows astronomers to see details up to 25 ...

Description: The invention of the cosmic microwave background signal, thought to be proof for the Big Bang theory ... multiple connected telescopes utilizing the techniques of radio interferometry and ...

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...

Called a Cascaded-mode interferometer, it is a single waveguide on a silicon-on-insulator platform that can create multiple ...

The telescope sits about 12 miles away from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), which sits atop the Cerro Paranal mountaintop. The site was chosen for its ...