Irish planetary scientists have christened a spider-like feature on Jupiter's icy moon Europa as "Damhán Alla," which ...
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Moving mirrors with heat

Deformable mirror using thermal actuators. Route to DIY adaptive optics for hobbyists? Maybe not, but it is an interesting demonstration project.
She cares for Mars, a baby pygmy hippo with a mind of his own who rarely does anything she asks; she’s constantly chasing ...
Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...
Judge said the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was 'arbitrary and capricious' ...
How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...
Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to ...
FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.