The telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organisation and is under ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Last week’s installation of the telescope’s combined primary/tertiary mirror represented a major milestone in the observatory ...

The Large Zenith Telescope: A 6 m Liquid‐Mirror Telescope This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT The Large Zenith Telescope is a 6 m optical telescope employing a ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...

This image shows the complete Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure (PMBSS) for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The inset shows the location of the four support mounts of the type that ...

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology has allowed the realization of cost-effective, high-performance deformable mirrors for ... in a plane conjugate to a telescope's primary mirror ...

[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.

STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large Telescope.”:: Cerro Armazones, ...

Now, the observation and operation building has been completed alongside a facility that will house a telescope with a primary mirror measuring 6.5 meters across. The instrument is scheduled to be ...