The main function of a telescope spectrograph is to separate light into its component colours (or wavelengths) to reveal information about the chemical content, temperature and motion of distant ...

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 ...

Next-generation astronomical telescopes will be equipped with high-contrast imaging instruments that aim to image faint stellar companions at smaller angular separations and deeper contrasts than ever ...

On Sunday, the first day of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation (“SATI”) conference, Dr. Norbert Hubin of European Southern Observatory (ESO) gave an update on ESO’s progress, entitled ...

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 ...

Nobuhiko Kobayashi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, began his career developing thin-film transistors required for controlling liquid crystal displays. Thirty years ...

Do​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ the clues for imaging earth-like planets stare at us from the faint glow of the far-off companions?

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 ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. The first images from ...

Astronomers using theSubaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have made groundbreaking discoveries, unveiling a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. These findings, detailed in a study ...