Astronomers Discover 'Cosmic Fossil' Galaxy That Remained 'Frozen in Time' for Billions of Years in Space Fossils are a great ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

"Adaptive optics is like a pumped-up autofocus and optical image stabilization in your smartphone camera, but correcting for the errors in the atmosphere rather than the user's shaky hands," says ...

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 previously ...

Adaptive optics essentially untwinkles the stars, canceling out the air between us and space to turn a fuzzy image crisp. The first adaptive optics concepts were proposed in the early 1950s and ...

So, adaptive optics are designed to do just that: adapt to the changes in the atmosphere to essentially “undo” the turbulence and create sharp, undistorted images.

The first image from Gemini South's new adaptive optics captures a view of the globular star cluster NGC 288. As shown on the left, with classical adaptive optics, the images are blurred due to ...

WILMINGTON, NEW CASTLE, DE, UNITED STATES, July 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, "Adaptive Optics Market Size, Share, Competitive ...

Astronomers have developed a new visible-light adaptive optics (AO) system for a 6.5 meter telescope in Chile's Atacama desert. The new AO system produces the sharpest telescopic images ever ...

The adaptive optics module isn't just meant to help study planets in our solar system — it can also produce sharper images of stars beyond our galaxy, like globular cluster NGC 6388.

The term “adaptive optics” sounds like something that should be really complicated and really expensive. And in general, the ability to control the properties of optical elements is ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...