It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we can take that incredible fact and stow it away and largely ...

From household robots to reusable rockets, a new wave of breakthrough inventions is redefining what humans can do in space ...

Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems ...

New Technology Brings Space Telescope Image Quality Down to Earth, Offering Astronomical Image Clarity Never Seen Before The next generation of adaptive optics has arrived at the Large Binocular ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Adaptive optics technology can remove the blurring effect of the Earth’s atmosphere that has long plagued astronomers, allowing ground-based telescopes to achieve a clarity of vision ...

Adaptive optics is a transformative technology that corrects distortions in optical wavefronts in real time, thereby enhancing image clarity in a diverse set of applications ranging from astronomical ...

The Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory has captured stunning views of the sun using its new coronal adaptive optics system called Cona. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Schmidt ...

The 5.4 km free-space quantum communication link between the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council Canada, where real-time atmospheric turbulence measurements were conducted to train ...

Foreword / Robert Q Fugate -- Preface -- Introduction -- List of acronyms -- 1: Sputnik, reality, and technology -- 2: Early days: the Romans -- 3: Rome and Itek: first adaptive optics systems -- 4: ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun's corona, revealing clearest images to date. (Nanowerk News) The Sun’s corona—the outermost layer of its ...

Adaptive optics systems utilize advanced computer control to manipulate optical components in order to improve the fidelity of optical measurements. In this project, the student will work with ...