The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Narrow Field Imager (NFI) was launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as a part of NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have achieved a significant milestone in optical imaging technology. A new all-optical complex field imager has been developed, capable ...

A diffractive complex field imager simultaneously captures the amplitude and phase distributions of unknown input complex objects across two spatially separated fields of view at the output plane.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Narrow Field Imager (NFI) captured its first light images on April 14, offering a preliminary glimpse of the Sun’s corona, as NASA’s ...

Europe’s flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new ‘eye’ to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the new instrument – dubbed HAWK-I – covers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope went back to the same place where the Hubble Telescope took its famous picture called the Ultra Deep Field. JWST’s new picture shows galaxies from different times by ...

This part of the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky — the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge number of stars that light up this region ...