Sira Electro-Optics Ltd, the Mullard Space Science Laboratory of University College London and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh have won a prestigious Faraday Partnership award in ...

With 2009 being the International Year of Astronomy, it is an apt time to reflect on just how far telescope technologies have come, and speculate about the future. Just over 400 years ago, Hans ...

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.210040, Researchers led by Professor Daewook Kim from The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA consider advances in optical ...

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

Astronomy has always relied on optical instruments, from the early Galilean telescope to fiber-fed spectrographs, so much so that astronomy and modern optics are called astrophotonics. Since ...

For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical instruments, scanning the skies for artificial signals. Now, researchers are taking ...

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific ...

The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Paranal Observatory has just seen another extension of its already impressive capabilities by combining interferometrically the light from two ...

Astronomers are looking forward to opening a new window on the universe by posting high-resolution telescopes on the moon, and in orbit around it. There are numerous proposals to do this from ...

How telescopes closed in on colliding neutron stars. Yellow contours show area of gamma ray burst detected by NASA’s Fermi telescope. White contours show the area of gravitational wave signal ...

The construction of the largest optical telescope ever built has moved one step closer today, with US$500 million in funding now committed from 11 international partners. Set to be the world's biggest ...

Buying a telescope, like buying a car or stereo equipment, is subject to your tastes as a consumer. In other words, the choice is up to you — but Astronomy can provide some guidelines to make your ...