Our latest Humanist Society talk explored the latest round of understanding the universe through space observations. Humanist ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

The ELT is leaping toward the stars, quite literally — its massive dome, once skeletal, is now clad in protective armor, ...

Combined with secondary mirrors or lenses, you then have a working telescope. Liquid mirror telescopes are dirt cheap ...

TNO design concept for the Giant Magellan Telescope’s FSMS secondary mirror support Our astronomy technology roadmap targets the combining of these technologies with our Deformable Mirror technology ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

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The Space Telescope Transporter for Air ... The process begins with the secondary mirror, which rides on a triangular boom that is folded against the center section of the main mirror.

That secondary mirror, in turn, bounced the light (and thus the image seen) into a convex eyepiece lens built into the side of the tube. This was the first working reflecting telescope.

By introducing a secondary mirror and a surrounding shroud, the antenna is less likely to pick up noisy radio radiation from the (relatively hot) ground surrounding the telescope. Moving the reflector ...