The dream of a flat, lightweight telescope lens, where microscopic etchings precisely refract different wavelengths of light, ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...

stray-light analysis for telescopes and space-based imaging systems; and display, biomedical-system and micro-optical-device modelling. RSoft Design Group (Ossining, USA) has released version 4.7 ...

Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. Prior knowledge ... platform and Mathematica can be helpful.

from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. The first order optical system design covered in the previous course is useful for the initial design of an ...

[Bill Hammack] elaborates on one such piece of engineering: The Alignment Optical Telescope. The telescope was used to find the position of the Lunar Module in space so that its guidance computer ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope's enormous eye — ...

An affordable telescope that can easily take images of the moon and sunspots on the sun thanks to a planetary camera will please some, but a flimsy build quality and a lack of optical prowess ...

Telescopes are devices used to observe the universe. There are many different types and some are even sited in space. Optical telescopes close optical telescopeA device used to see distant objects ...