The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular ...

IMFR11GHz is a Michelson interferometer, in which a light source is split into two beams, which are reflected by mirrors back to the detector. [alfazoOm] is basing his telescope off of the Stony ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

NASA's proposed return to the moon via Artemis missions offers astronomers a chance to deploy an interferometer and other telescopes. That would take advantage of an environment supported by the ...

VLT, an interferometer consisting of four 28-foot-wide (8.5 m) telescopes that work together as one, is one of the world's most powerful astronomical instruments. It captured the first ever image ...

The other remarkable achievement taking shape on Paranal is the VLT interferometer. This setup, common in radio astronomy, capitalizes on the fact that if a telescope has a larger aperture ...

Dr Maggie learns how the power of each of the VLT's telescopes can be combined.