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Project Astronomers and Engineers Say LSST Mirror Blank is Perfect

News - 2 Sep 2008

The single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blank cast for the LSST is "perfect", say project astronomers and engineers. The LSST, or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a large survey...
Astronomers Made Stunning Discovery using Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory

News - 27 Aug 2008

Two UC Santa Barbara astronomers are part of a team that has made a stunning discovery using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, it was announced today by the National...
NASA Rename GLAST to Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

News - 27 Aug 2008

NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary...
Hubble Space Telescope Has Found the Answer to a Long-Standing Puzzle

News - 21 Aug 2008

NGC 1275 is one of the closest giant elliptical galaxies and lies at the centre of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies. It is an active galaxy, hosting a supermassive black hole at its core, which blows...
Hubble Space Telescope Providing Scientists With Largest Sample of Distant Galaxies

News - 24 Jul 2008

By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to...
Polarised Sunglasses Help Astronomers See Black Hole Disks

News - 24 Jul 2008

For the first time astronomers have found a way to get a clean view of the elusive disks of matter surrounding supermassive black holes. By using a polarising filter on the Science and Technology...
Work Greatly Strengthens Explanation of Quasars

News - 23 Jul 2008

For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers...
Proven Record in Manufacturing High Precision Telescope Spectrograph Optics

News - 15 Jul 2008

Benefiting from a unique stabilised production environment Optical Surfaces Ltd has developed a reputation for designing and manufacturing high precision telescope spectrograph optics (aspheres,...
Examining Stars and Star Clusters at the Farthest Reaches of Space

News - 10 Jul 2008

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the...
GLAST Gearing Up for Data from Satellite

News - 2 Jul 2008

Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite. Operations centers preparing for data from...

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