Astronomers have observed a Sun-like star dim dramatically for nearly nine months after being obscured by a vast cloud of gas and dust. A huge cloud filled with vaporized metals has been spotted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

NASA scientists are eager to get to grips with a new toy for observing the heavens, the Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph (EXES). Mounted on a heavily-customized Boeing 747, the spectrograph has ...

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 ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading provider of high precision optical components for terrestrial and spaceborne telescope spectrographs. Spectrographs are the ‘go to’ scientific instruments used to ...

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 ...