In the quest for ultra-secure, long-range quantum communication, two major challenges stand in the way: the unpredictable ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

In the quest for ultra-secure, long-range quantum communication, two major challenges stand in the way: the unpredictable ...

Adaptive optics relies on wave-front sensors to measure aberrations in light coming into a telescope, camera, or similar system, and then uses deformable mirrors to correct those aberrations.

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

Adaptive optics is a branch of optics and photonics that uses light-controlling components to actively correct distortion in an incoming image. These distortions can occur when light from an ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

An advanced imaging system developed at the University of Arizona boasts a shape-shifting mirror that delivers observing ...