The Giant Magellan Telescope begins the four-year process to fabricate and polish its seventh and final primary mirror, the last required to complete the telescope’s 368 square meter light collecting ...
Manufacturing of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) progressed further with the delivery of the telescope’s first mirror segment for grinding and polishing in late September. Northrop Grumman ...
NASA opened a golden eye on the cosmos Saturday. The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex of its kind, successfully completed its final deployment stage by opening its 21-foot gold ...
One upon a time, the largest glass telescope mirror was 100 inches in diameter. Today, scientists are casting a mirror 27 feet in diameter that... Mega Mirror To Power Massive New Telescope GUY RAZ, ...
Webb continues on its path to becoming a focused observatory. The team has successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases of mirror alignment. With the completion of these ...