Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...

and the science done with them is called optical astronomy. But there's an entire electromagnetic spectrum, of which the visible light our eyes can see is just a sliver. Digital telescopes use a ...

Other astronomy applications currently running include the delay lines and star separators for the VLT, the world's largest optical interferometric telescope system. TNO combines four areas of ...

Poor optical design can hack off the sides and ... As binocular models become more specialized for astronomy, they tend to focus more deeply. Their point of closest focus will tend to be more ...

“We build the largest and most powerful telescopes, in the best place on Earth for astronomy ... and contaminate optical surfaces—including telescope mirrors and lenses—with dust.

Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or qubits.