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 ...

If the James Webb telescope was 10 times more powerful, could we see the beginning of time? – Sam H., age 12, Prosper, Texas This illustration of the front view of the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KGUN9 got a chance to see an important way UA helps astronomers around the world—by building a key part of the world’s most powerful telescopes. In the Mirror Lab, a complex tucked under ...

Last week’s installation of the telescope’s combined primary/tertiary mirror represented a major milestone in the observatory’s 15-year-long design and construction effort. “We have a ...

telescope equipped with one of the largest mirrors ever to fly on such a high-tech gas bag. Freed from the murkiness of the Earth's atmosphere, space telescopes represent a quantum leap for ...