Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun calibration and assembly of the first flight primary mirror segment for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the cryogenic infrared observatory ...

Completed 8.4-meter-diameter primary mirror being transported and integrated with a support system prototype at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. TUCSON, AZ — October 15, 2024 — ...

The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab’s casting of the first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) “appears to be essentially perfect,” UA Steward Observatory Director Peter ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The dome enclosing the world's largest telescope is taking shape, with the installation of ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope begins the four-year process to fabricate and polish its seventh and final primary mirror, the last required to complete the telescope’s 368 square meter light collecting ...

The powerful instrument promises to reveal the cosmos in greater detail than ever before. To accomplish this feat, engineers ...

University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab staff members placing nearly 20 tons of Ohara E6 low expansion glass into a mold for casting the Giant Magellan Telescope’s seventh primary mirror ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Felix Schlang at What About It?, ercxspace on twitter and adonaisf have rendered a space telescope built inside the structure of a SpaceX Starship. Elon Musk has said SpaceX is working on designing a ...

The team behind the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) has this week announced the successful installation of one of its completed 8.4-meter-diameter primary mirrors into a support system prototype at the ...