Other telescopes could lose up to 96% of their images due to satellite-related light pollution.Light pollution has always ...

The Wide Field Camera 3 instrument gives the telescope the ability to capture a panchromatic view of objects flying through ...

NASA has reportedly expressed concern over the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit causing increasing light ...

Optical telescopes utilize refraction and reflection to focus light, enabling detailed astronomical observations and ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory uses the world's largest digital camera to capture incredibly detailed images of space. It will create a 10-year, time-lapse movie of the southern sky, showing how the ...

A new generation of extremely large telescopes requires fresh approaches to correct for the blurring effects caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, as Richard de Grijs, one of an international team of ...

Adaptive optics, a technique used in professional astronomical observatories, corrects for atmospheric distortion of starlight, leading to sharper images. This is achieved not through telescope ...

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

BAE Systems has delivered to NASA the primary piece of optical equipment that is scheduled to launch as part of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in 2027. Known as the Wide Field Instrument (WFI), ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

From nebulas and galaxies to star clusters, the sun and the moon, here’s what to image in the night sky using a smart ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class ...