The first telescopes refracted light, and today reflectors dominate, but there is a third way to make light focus, and it ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied on curved lenses and mirrors to observe the Universe. A team of researchers has ...

In addition to being a runnable CLI tool, D2 can also be used to produce diagrams from Go programs. For examples, see ./docs/examples/lib. This blog post also demos a complete, runnable example of ...

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why do people use telescopes to look into space ...

Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all ages ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope let us see this directly.

Here's my choice of the best lenses for bokeh. Isolate your subject and make it stand out against a dreamy blurred backdrop The best lenses for bokeh produce that perfect soft, creamy blur in the ...

The research team of Wang Jianli of the Chun Institute of Optics, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the observation of space objects based on metalens. In this study, ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's latest image has all the things: jets, a swooshy tail, a hidden secret and tiny stellar dust grains. Webb's February Picture of the Month showcases the powerful ...