Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

but this also limits the size of the primary mirror. Read more: 12 Smart Gadgets You Didn't Know Existed Space telescopes have to be folded up to fit inside the nose cone of a rocket, so the James ...

from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive technologies could well emerge from integrated photonic ...

Now, with the much shorter 24-inch with folded optics, the dome offers plenty ... that went into the Boller & Chivens telescope, one needs to take it apart - which we do, on occasion, to do some ...

But before it gets integrated onto its rocket, the telescope had to be folded into its custom ... at the center of the main mirror, to form as perfect an optical system as possible.