[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea.

[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 119, No. 854, April 2007 The Large Zenith Telescope: A 6 m Liquid... The Large Zenith Telescope: A 6 m Liquid‐Mirror Telescope This is the ...

"I'm like a child let loose in a toy store." The fun should continue until the telescope runs out of the liquid helium that helps cool it, in about 2008. Early in the next decade, NASA plans to ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...

Did you know India got the world's first liquid-mirror telescope commissioned atop Devasthal, a hill in Uttarakhand. Know what it is and how it is different from conventional telescopes This ...

Abstract: Liquid crystal (LC) adaptive optics systems (AOS) can potentially be used in ground-based large aperture telescopes, because of their high spatial resolution, low cost and compact size.