The image of Comet 3I/ATLAS was caught by Gemini North telescope atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island during a Shadow the ...

Subaru Telescope’s advanced Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has been given a new Hawaiian name, ʻŌnohiʻula. This name ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, collecting rare data as the ancient object made ...

An instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft’s unique ...

Figure 1: Experimental set-up and visualization of the raw data. The calibration tests consisted of series of 10–100 acquisitions (typically with an exposure time of 10–40 s plus a read-out time for ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light and is thus impossible to detect using ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

"NIRSpec will be a game changer." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "One of the rules for building spacecraft is to have as few ...

Spectrographs are important tools for studying many biological and chemical processes and substances, from pigments to plant growth and nucleic acids to pharmaceuticals, providing information about ...

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 Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has made valuable ...