The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme ...

High up in the Chilean Andes, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is set to become the world's largest optical telescope and ...

It uses your phone’s sensors, GPS data, and object catalogs to help you align, locate, and track targets with minimal ...

The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope is set to have full scientific operations commencing by ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Recent progress photos of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

As the largest optical telescope in the world, the ELT will allow scientists to dive further into our universe than ever before. The ELT’s 39-metre ‘eye on the sky’ will capture some of the clearest ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, ...

Optical aberration theory remains a fundamental component in the design and operation of space telescopes. With increasingly ambitious astronomical missions and the demand for high-resolution imaging, ...

The discovery of two remarkable substellar companions orbiting distant stars has been announced by an international team of ...

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