SANTA CRUZ, CA–Adaptive optics technology can remove the blurring effect of the Earth’s atmosphere that has long plagued astronomers, allowing ground-based telescopes to achieve a clarity of vision ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a grant of $9.1 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to establish a Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. The new laboratory strengthens ...

Adaptive optics (AO) systems have become an indispensable tool in modern astronomy, enabling ground‐based telescopes to overcome the deleterious effects of atmospheric turbulence and achieve ...

Atmospheric turbulence, arising from rapid fluctuations in temperature, humidity and wind in the Earth’s atmosphere, presents a formidable challenge for precise astronomical observations. Variations ...

New Technology Brings Space Telescope Image Quality Down to Earth, Offering Astronomical Image Clarity Never Seen Before The next generation of adaptive optics has arrived at the Large Binocular ...

Fig. 1 | (a) The sketch of the PDSM-241. (b) Actuator layout (clear aperture: 270mm). (c) The self-corrected aberration of PDSM-241. A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, ...

Learn about the astronomy developments supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) at the American Astronomical Society meeting at the Town & Country Resort and Conference Center in San Diego, ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, as it will appear at night upon completion. As humanity works together to build the newest generation of ground-based optical telescopes, with diameters between 25 and 39 ...

Foreword / Robert Q Fugate -- Preface -- Introduction -- List of acronyms -- 1: Sputnik, reality, and technology -- 2: Early days: the Romans -- 3: Rome and Itek: first adaptive optics systems -- 4: ...

Stars in the night sky appear to twinkle because air moving in the atmosphere disrupts starlight before it reaches our eyes. While this phenomenon might make for a great nursery rhyme, it causes major ...

The W. M. Keck Observatory and ALPAO have announced that they are partnering to develop an adaptive optics system for the Keck II 10-meter telescope, located on Maunakea, Hawaii. The firms are working ...

Note to reporters: Andrea Ghez will give a presentation on adaptive optics applications in astronomy at the dedication of the Center for Adaptive Optics on June 21 at UC Santa Cruz. The following is ...