Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and ...

A spectrograph splits light into its component wavelengths ... If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for ...

The main function of a telescope spectrograph is to separate light into its component colours (or wavelengths) to reveal information about the chemical content, temperature and motion of distant ...

Researchers have developed a new technology that can shape the spectrum of light emitted from a laser frequency comb across ...

It's been something of a rough month for the Hubble Space Telescope. Toward the end of October, NASA detected that Hubble's science instruments had lost synchronization and automatically entered safe ...

The international collaboration developing the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has marked a significant testing milestone by successfully taking spectra of targeted stars. The PFS will be mounted on ...

The University of Geneva's Astronomy Department, also known as the Geneva Observatory, is a leading player in the development and operation of high-precision spectrographs for astrophysics research, ...

The researchers programmed various photos as target shapes on the two-dimensional spectrograph. Shown here is a team member’s ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Original Image Tube Spectrograph built in the early 1960s by W. Kent Ford, Jr., which he then used in collaboration ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining life. On 6 October 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two ...