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 ...
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 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 ...
An artist's concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has completed initial commissioning of its ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS), which will ...