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The Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab is currently creating mirrors that are essential for the world’s best telescopes to function, including the under-construction Giant Magellan Telescope, which ...
Searching for the ends of the universe, Robert Williams has led the Hubble Space Telescope project to find new parts of the universe never before seen by astronomers. Williams will talk about his work ...
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently awarded RIT $2.8 million to design, develop and build a zero-noise detector for the future Thirty Meter Telescope. Expected to be operational in the next ...
This telescope is a typical example of those used in the popular satellite tracking program called Operation Moonwatch. The design of this instrument is quite similar to telescopes sold by Edmund ...
Join us at Space Telescope Science Institute in person on Thursday, March 30, to learn more about astronomy during our Youth for Astronomy and Engineering Program STEM Forum followed by an opportunity ...
Each telescope contained a 12-inch Cassegrain optical system and was equipped with a special Uvicon television tube and filters. The data from Celescope resulted in a catalog of over 5,000 ultraviolet ...
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches, it will mark the culmination of nearly 30 years of development on the most powerful observational instrument ever made. Numerous members of RIT’s ...
We understand parts of what happened in the early universe. But a huge blank still haunts astronomers. They call it the “dark ages” because, with no starlight to study, they’re left guessing where all ...
UC Santa Cruz grad student Tuguldur Sukhbold is using grant money to bring telescopes to schools in Mongolia so that science-starved kids might be exposed to the wonders of the universe.
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