The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

VLT, an interferometer consisting of four 28-foot-wide (8.5 m) telescopes that work together as one, is one of the world's most powerful astronomical instruments. It captured the first ever image ...

Such monolithic interferometers will make it possible to build relatively ... Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory. KPNO is operated by AURA, Inc ...

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...

What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed giant interferometer on the moon. It's called the Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI) and would ...

A team of scientists want to start a new mission to try to find life beyond Earth and the solar system. Astronomers from ETH ...

The basic imaging element of these arrays is the two‐element interferometer. Accurate knowledge of two quantities is required: the “projected baseline length,” which is the distance between the two ...