Gemini South, one of the world's most productive and powerful optical-infrared telescopes, has received a major capability boost with the successful installation of a new high-resolution spectrograph ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light and is thus impossible to detect using conventional techniques employed in particle physics. In recent years, ...

UC Santa Cruz has been awarded $350,000 in combined grant and donor funds for a major upgrade to the Kast Spectrograph at Lick Observatory. Astronomers throughout the UC system use the Kast ...

The Nearby Supernova Factory, an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists, has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved “first light” during the ...

The news is awash about a 17 year old girl who won a $100,000 scholarship for her spectrograph, but nobody actually linked to information about the thing. After some digging around, I located [Mary]’s ...

Benefiting from a unique underground facility, where temperatures remain constant year-round and vibration is practically non-existent, the company can routinely produce spectrograph optics, including ...

GIRAFFE is a medium-high resolution (R=5500-65000) spectrograph for the entire visible range 370-900 nm. GIRAFFE is aimed at carrying out intermediate and high resolution spectroscopy of galactic and ...

Think of a fly. Have you ever tried to catch one? You’d better be fast, because, like most insects, flies can detect movements 360° around them. The secret lies in their compound eyes, which are made ...

For the first time, an 8-meter telescope can simultaneously collect a spectral fingerprint from a thousand stars — including stars buried so deep inside the Milky Way's dust-choked core that no ground ...

The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich, Germany, saw “first light” November 10, 2010, on McDonald ...