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New Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory Achieves its First Image

News - 4 Nov 2015

After several years and a massive team effort, one of the world’s largest telescopes, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory, has...

OSIRIS Spectrograph Identifies Surface Mineral Chemical Composition of Jupiter's Moon Europa

News - 28 Oct 2015

Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to possess a large salty ocean beneath its icy exterior, and that ocean, scientists say, has the potential to harbor life. Indeed, a mission recently suggested by...

New IR Deflectometry System for Rapid Metrology of Freeform Optical Surfaces

News - 7 Jul 2015

Researchers from the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona have developed a new IR deflectometry system that has the capability to overcome the limitations demonstrated by currently...

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

News - 11 Jun 2015

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...

Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array Produces Unprecedented Videos of the Radio Sky

News - 12 May 2015

A new radio telescope array developed by a consortium led by Caltech and now operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory has the ability to image simultaneously the entire sky at radio wavelengths...

Cosmic Light Cornerstone Projects to Increase Awareness of Problems Caused By Light Pollution

News - 17 Apr 2015

On 20 December 2013, the 68th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). This initiative was the...

NASA and STScI Announce this Year's Group of Hubble Fellows

News - 7 Apr 2015

NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have announced the selection of 17 new Hubble Fellows. STScI in Baltimore, Maryland, administers the Hubble Fellowship Program for...

USC Professor’s Contributions to Optics and Photonics Industry Wins 2015 John Tyndall Award

News - 12 Dec 2014

The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society announced that Paul Daniel Dapkus, W. M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California, is the recipient...

Very Large Telescope Interferometer Probes Exozodiacal Light

News - 4 Nov 2014

Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in near-infrared light [1], the team of astronomers observed 92 nearby stars to probe exozodiacal light from hot dust close to their habitable...

Clear Skies, Steamy Water Vapor Discovered on Gaseous Exoplanet by Three NASA Telescopes

News - 25 Sep 2014

Astronomers using data from three of NASA's space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer, and Kepler -- have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapor on a gaseous planet outside our solar system. The...