telescopes

17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known, in part, for discovering Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and deducing the shape of the planet’s rings. But by…
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The US company DARPA intends to develop and manufacture liquid mirrors to replace optical glass or beryllium mirrors in next-generation telescopes through the Zenith program. The advantages of liquid-mirror telescopes are many, but…
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Japanese astronomers have discovered two galaxies hidden on the "edge of space and time", which Einstein described as "space-time", using 66 radio telescopes to discover very long distances and penetrate the overlapping environments and…
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