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First Sunshield Layer for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Delivered to Northrop Grumman

The first of the five sunshield layers that will make it possible for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the formation of stars and galaxies created more than 13.5 billion years ago, was delivered to Northrop Grumman Corporation's Space Park facility April 24.

13 Aug 2015

AOA Xinetics Builds Incredible Deformable Mirror for World's Largest Solar Telescope

The world's largest ground-based solar telescope is one step closer to operation with the acceptance of the deformable mirror engineered by AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation company. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), currently under construction on Haleakala on the island of Maui, Hawaii, will offer unprecedented high-resolution images of the sun using the latest adaptive optics technology to provide its distortion-free imaging.

31 Jul 2015

‘Breakthrough Listen’ Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence to use World’s two Most Powerful Telescopes

A West Virginia University expert says humanity’s first attempt to detect signs of alien life started 55 years ago in the University’s backyard and is one of the only places in the world that an unprecedented reinvigoration of the search can continue.

23 Jul 2015

NSF’s Green Bank Telescope to Join Intensive Scientific Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) will join in the most powerful, comprehensive, and intensive scientific search ever for signs of intelligent life in the Universe. The international endeavor, known as the Breakthrough Listen, will scan the nearest million stars in our own Galaxy and stars in 100 other galaxies for the telltale radio signature of an advanced civilization.

21 Jul 2015

AURA Releases Plans for High-Definition Space Telescope to Directly Image Exoplanets

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy has announced its plans to develop the High Definition Space Telescope, an advanced high-definition space observatory with an aim to succeed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

7 Jul 2015

PG&O and SCHOTT Release White Paper on New Optical Mirrors on BOROFLOAT 33 Substrate

Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O), a U.S.-based optics company, has teamed with SCHOTT (U.S.) to provide a new Optical Mirrors white paper and instructional video on the unique glass substrate, BOROFLOAT® 33. PG&O selected BOROFLOAT glass for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) mirrors project at Texas A&M and University of Texas, Austin. The telescope was designed to measure dark energy in outer space.

From Precision Glass & Optics 16 Jun 2015

Stratosphere Detected on Massive, Blazing-Hot Exoplanet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth's atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b.

12 Jun 2015

Astronomers at ESO Observe Early Stages of Butterfly-Like Planetary Nebula

From striking images obtained through ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have identified, for the first time, what seems to be the initial stage of a butterfly-like planetary nebula formation from an ageing star.

11 Jun 2015

Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Partners Commit Over $500 Million for Construction of Extremely Large Telescopes

The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization has announced today that its 11 international partners have committed more than US$500 million to begin construction of the first of a new generation of extremely large telescopes. Once it is built, the Giant Magellan Telescope is poised to be the largest optical telescope in the world.

4 Jun 2015

Hubble Reveals Chaotic Rhythm of Pluto’s Moons

If you lived on one of Pluto's moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows that two of Pluto's moons, Nix and Hydra, wobble unpredictably.

4 Jun 2015