diameter mirror. The thin lens allowed the team to design a lighter, cheaper telescope, which they named the Nautilus Space Observatory. Daniel Apai/University of Arizona, CC BY-ND Finally ...

Magnetic currents could shape a space-telescope mirror effectively regardless of its orientation. The design could also be ...

It could make lightweight mirrors that are 15 or 20 meters in diameter a reality.' A scientist says it may be possible to create low-cost foldable telescope mirrors that are more than twice the ...

high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space. The resulting mirrors are flexible enough to be rolled up and stored compactly ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the ... and we first used a steel mirror mass simulator to demonstrate that our design was able to safely support and control the completed primary ...

They’ve made a telescope with a far weirder component: liquid mercury. The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), situated atop a mountain in the Himalayas, has a spinning vat of liquid ...

The mirror is the last of seven needed to capture light for what will be the world’s most powerful optical instrument, the Giant Magellan Telescope. Slated to start operating in the late 2020s ...

As the scientists will explain in a new paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, a proposal that was originally submitted to NASA back in 2008 for a “Lunar Liquid-Mirror Telescope ...

Felix Schlang at What About It?, ercxspace on twitter and adonaisf have rendered a space telescope built inside the structure of a SpaceX Starship. Elon Musk has said SpaceX is working on designing a ...

Caris Mirror Lab, began to heat a 20-ton, 27.6-foot-wide (8.4 meters) pool of optical glass to 2,130 degrees Fahrenheit (1,165 degrees Celsius), in the first steps of manufacturing a telescope mirror.

The telescope, launched from French Guiana on Christmas, is still being calibrated and by all accounts has been performing splendidly. But the direct hit on a mirror caught NASA by surprise and is ...