It's also fitted with the largest camera ever built for an astronomical telescope — a 5.4-foot-wide (1.65 m), 3,200-megapixel device with 189 CCD detectors. The telescope will be able to tilt ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the ...

X‐ray optics and telescope mirror technology form the backbone of high-energy astrophysical research, enabling the capture and precise imaging of celestial X‐ray sources. Advances in the ...

Brightest Pulsar: Astronomers using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ... in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years.

A brief introduction to spherical mirrors - concave and convex mirrors, centre and radius of curvature, pole and principal axis, focus and focal length; location of images from ray diagram for ...

A cutting-edge astronomical satellite jointly developed by China and France has begun to produce scientific payoffs, as it recently detected three gamma-ray bursts, according to the Chinese Academy of ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences' National Astronomical Observatories said the Einstein Probe is dedicated to time-domain high-energy astrophysics and multi-messenger astronomy. The satellite has two ...