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Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without ...
The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...
The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...
the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). With blanks made by the German company SCHOTT, this vast structure was the biggest that the company had ever made. But the mirror didn't just need to be big.
PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...
The center structure will support the telescope's large central mirror and secondary mirror. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia Progress has also been made on the polygon structure at the base inside of ...
AGC Plasma Technology Solutions is proud to announce its pivotal role in enabling the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the most ambitious ground-based ...
With a diameter of more than 39 metres, M1 will be by far the largest mirror ever made for a telescope. Too large to be made from a single piece of glass, M1 will consist of 798 hexagonal ...
Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...