This particular telescope is under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the darkest places on Earth ...

At the Paranal Observatory, the UT4 telescope doesn't just stargaze—it actively creates its own stars using powerful lasers ...

Rising at the center of the dome, the lightweight yet robust framework will eventually hold the telescope’s massive mirrors. One of the most impressive components is the 39-meter-wide mirror cell at ...

TV presenter Angellica Bell was in tears as she discussed her exit from The Martin Lewis Money Show back in 2023. On Tuesday night, the presenter took to the Diary Room in the Celebrity Big ...

David Beckham is looking forward to celebrating his 50th birthday next month - but it may be without his eldest son Brooklyn. Earlier this year it was reported that brothers Brooklyn and Romeo are ...

Over the years, larger telescopes have been built, thanks to computers, lasers and innovative mirror-building technologies. As a result, the massive Palomar reflector has dropped out of the top 20 ...

This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). But the team and independent ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according ...

This segmented mirror is composed of 492 hexagonal segments ... stars for the Adaptive Optics System (AOS). Telescopes on the Earth's surface face the challenge of atmospheric distortion, which ...

The lateral displacement and clocking of the moving frame is controlled by three leaf springs which are connected to the fixed telescope structure. The moving frame isolates the mirror segment from ...