An international team of astronomers using the Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope has identified the bright star Rho Cassiopeiae as the best candidate to undergo a ...

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 ...

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), a private, nonprofit scientific institution conducting time domain astrophysics and education, and a provider of global telescope resources, achieved ...

Jeffrey Van Cleve, G. E. Gull, S. A. Rinehart, J. D. Smith, J. C. Wilson, J. R. Houck, Mike Colonno, R. Brown, W. Blalock Publications of the Astronomical Society of ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We describe the CCD camera developed and built for the echelle spectrograph, attached to the 91-cm telescope at Catania Astrophysical ...

The hunt for exoplanets has entered a new phase with the European Southern observatory's Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) achieving first light ...

To the casual onlooker, the space between the stars is benign and quiet. However, this space — also called the interstellar medium is, in fact, very active and contains the raw materials for future ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An unstable massive star has suddenly vanished from view, and astronomers aren't sure if it ...

Nasa is launching a new Chess sounding rocket on 27 June which will study vast interstellar clouds to understand more about the earliest stages of star formation ...

In deep space, floating between the stars, lies an abundance of atoms -- carbon, oxygen, hydrogen -- that over millions of years will grow into new stars and new planets. NASA successfully launched ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Spectro Scientific about the opportunities and challenges the oil lubrication industry will face in the future. Shinobu Nagata, Taylor Aube, and Juan Pacheco In this ...