Astronomers have used the Gemini North telescope to capture a new image of a planetary nebula nicknamed the Crystal Ball ...

Astronomers released a detailed image of the Crystal Ball Nebula, revealing how a dying star is reshaping its surroundings.

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly ...

The calibration tests consisted of series of 10–100 acquisitions (typically with an exposure time of 10–40 s plus a read-out time for the charge-coupled-device (CCD) detector of 30 s) with LFC light ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

"NIRSpec will be a game changer." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "One of the rules for building spacecraft is to have as few ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye," culminating several years of effort. This new eye is an instrument featuring approximately 2,400 prisms ...

The news is awash about a 17 year old girl who won a $100,000 scholarship for her spectrograph, but nobody actually linked to information about the thing. After some digging around, I located [Mary]’s ...

Spectrographs are important tools for studying many biological and chemical processes and substances, from pigments to plant growth and nucleic acids to pharmaceuticals, providing information about ...

A team of scientists and engineers led by Princeton researchers recently reported the successful operation of a new instrument for the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii that will allow astronomers to make ...