The AIMS Interferometer represents over 20 years leading edge development resulting in easy to use, robust products, which have been specifically optimised for each measurement application. All ...

MATISSE (Multi AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment observes infrared light -- light between the visible and microwave wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, covering wavelengths from ...

Flagstaff, Ariz. — A Lowell Observatory-led research team recently received one full night of observing time with the Keck Interferometer, a near-infrared instrument that combines the largest pair of ...

Astronomers use a bevy of different methods to analyze distant exoplanets, but the GRAVITY instrument attached to the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) recently ...

Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. During its first observations, GRAVITY successfully combined starlight ...

March 27 (UPI) --For the first time, the Very Large Telescope's GRAVITY instrument has observed a distant exoplanet using optical interferometry. Observations of the exoplanet's atmosphere revealed ...

Matter has the mind-boggling ability to behave like waves as well as particles but it has taken physicists some time to exploit this effect. In recent years, however, various groups around the world ...

A lot of what I write is about measurement, not because I'm in love with calipers, but because the cutting edge of physics is at the limit of what we can measure. That means that when you want to ...

First investigations with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer reveal the dust torus around the black hole in a galactic nucleus Extreme physical processes occur in the innermost regions of ...

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Looking into black holes is the main mission for the instrument known as Gravity, which is newly-installed at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. During its first ...

The new MATISSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made its first observations at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. MATISSE is the most ...