The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

Astronomers searching for rocky exoplanets orbiting distant stars are about to start benefiting from new high-precision optical equipment being used in tandem with the European Southern Observatory’s ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

The spectrograph will be commissioned on Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), Nainital, Uttarakhand, and will be used by astronomers in India and abroad.(AFP) Scientists have indigenously designed and ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 120, No. 873 (13 October 2008), pp. 1222-1232 (11 pages) ABSTRACT. The spectrophotometric calibration of surveys is a significant, but ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The in-orbit performance of the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is presented. This report covers ...

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 ...

The hunt for exoplanets has entered a new phase with the European Southern observatory's Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) achieving first light ...

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 ...

A team of scientists and engineers led by Princeton researchers recently reported the successful operation of a new instrument for the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii that will allow astronomers to make ...