"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab recently completed a five-year project for the U.S. Air Force, developing designs for ...

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

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Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

To accomplish its work, Rubin relies on an innovative three-mirror design unlike that of any other telescope. Its primary mirror is actually made up of two separate surfaces with different curvatures.

The FYST has an off-axis Crossed-Dragone design, comprising a parabolic primary mirror and a large concave secondary mirror, both roughly 6 meters in diameter. This creates a high-throughput, wide ...