Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification possible. How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand ...

Every area of interest, particularly if it’s the least bit technical, has its own specialized vocabulary. For example, when the Global Positioning System (GPS) came along and I decided to get a ...

For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical instruments, scanning the skies for artificial signals. Now, researchers are taking ...

Astronomy has always relied on optical instruments, from the early Galilean telescope to fiber-fed spectrographs, so much so that astronomy and modern optics are called astrophotonics. Since ...