After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four powerful onboard science instruments. Upon completing the seventh and ...

The National Science Foundation recently awarded $3.9 million to researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz as the lead institution for the development of a next-gen telescope alignment ...

A rare alignment of two exoplanets with their star, marking one of the few known exosyzygies, an astronomical event involving celestial bodies outside our solar system, is expected to occur. Despite ...

Segmented mirror telescopes form the backbone of modern optical astronomy, enabling apertures far exceeding the fabrication limits of monolithic mirrors. Precise piston alignment of individual mirror ...

An extraordinary and rare celestial event – an alignment of two distant planets and their star, predicted to take place on 1 April 2026 – will probably go unseen by humanity because astronomers have ...