Astronomers have obtained detailed images of two protoplanets forming around the PDS 70 star system, located 370 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation. These planets are still surrounded by ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

However, with adaptive optics enabled, we successfully restored the channel, performing high-dimensional QKD and encoding up to three bits per photon—significantly boosting the key generation rate." ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

A startling picture shows scientists shooting lasers at the Milky Way. The four beams of the European Southern Observatory's ...

Weather forecasting has long been a crucial tool for modern society, shaping agriculture, energy management, climate science, ...

Their two latest breakthroughs—an AI-powered turbulence forecasting tool called TAROQQO and a high-speed Adaptive Optics (AO) system for correcting turbulence in quantum channels—represent a ...

The "Photonics4Future" webinar series offers exclusive insights into research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF. Once a month, researchers present their ...

The demand for high-speed internet has been growing in recent years. The global internet traffic is also growing by 25% ...

Other important applications include astronomy, where laser guide stars operating at 589 nm are now used routinely with adaptive optics to correct atmospheric distortions. Ozone gas detection is ...