New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

The research team of Wang Jianli of the Chun Institute of Optics, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same ... each of which comes into focus at a different point on the optical axis—hence the color fringes seen in refractors.

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Publications of the Astronomical Society ... It had been the largest optical telescope in China for ∼18 years until the Guoshoujing Telescope (also ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/681280 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/681280 AbstractDetailed knowledge of the image of the point spread function (PSF) is necessary ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...

A high-stakes face-off is brewing in the arid deserts of northern Chile, between astronomers building the world’s largest optical telescope ... future of ground-based astronomy as a whole.

"It's going to impact practically all areas of astronomy. We're going to be able ... The telescope is expected to be the largest optical-infrared facility in the world for decades.