The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Adaptive optics relies on wave-front sensors to measure ... The deformable mirror, designed to correct aberrations for astronomy and laser communications, contains 1,024 actuators in a 32 × ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

Perhaps the most striking feature of photonic technology is the ease with which it can be applied to and benefit many different problems. A perfect example illustrating this point is adaptive ...

Leveraging long standing expertise at UC Santa Cruz in adaptive optics systems for astronomy, the researchers are collaborating to figure out how to best capture the faint glimmers of light from ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/424805 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/424805 ABSTRACT Ground‐layer adaptive optics (GLAO) promises a significant improvement in ...