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 × ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The key to adaptive optics is a "guide star"—a bright spot ... Patrick Cameron, of the University of Glasgow's School of Physics & Astronomy, is the paper's first author. He said, "Complex ...