Liquid mirrors can only point straight up. could magnets solve this problem?
When it comes to telescope mirrors, larger is generally better. The larger your main mirror, the more light you can capture ...
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TNO technology selected for Secondary Mirror of W. M. Keck Observatory
TNO is excited to provide cutting edge adaptive optics technology to improve the vision of the world-class Keck Observatory.
Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world's largest telescope (photo)
The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.
NASA's Webb telescope threatened with budget cuts. They would hit hard.
"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...
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How to Silver Mirrors for a Reflecting Telescope
Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
Webb telescope has a new mission: surveillance of a threatening asteroid
The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...
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Chile-based telescope will search for earliest stars and signs of extraterrestrial life
The boxes are due to be assembled into one giant mirror approximately 1-1/2 times the size of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The telescope's primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet ...