The European Southern Observatory plans a nearly 40-meter Extremely Large Telescope in Chile ... of a sheet of paper. Now the Mirror Lab's challenge is to use what it has learned in this process ...

The use of telescopes in astronomy goes ... Two 8.4-meter honeycomb telescope mirrors developed by the Mirror Lab are utilized in the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO), located in ...

Rather than use a heavy, glass mirror, researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s directed ... as far away as Washington, D.C.” Large space-based telescopes could also be used to ...

The new system was delivered to his laboratory in July ... The researchers will use the system to demonstrate that it works for telescope mirrors and other large substrates and to continue ...

The upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... The first six mirrors that have just been casted will be used to calibrate and optimize the process, meaning future mirrors will be made more ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space.

LIGO is designed to detect gravitational waves, but it is also proving to be a fantastic laboratory for pushing the limits of quantum physics. Now, an international team of researchers has cooled the ...

By using aperture-limited high-precision profilometry, comparison test could be performed on large-aperture aspheric mirrors. More high-precision testing methods could also be used for comparison ...