Jul 14, 2016 @ 18:06 | A new concept in space telescope design uses a modular structure and an assembly robot to build an extremely large telescope in space, performing tasks in which astronaut fatigue would be a problem. The design is detailed in a paper published this week by SPIE, the international society for […]
Jun 14, 2016 @ 18:41 | Berkeley Lab is building and testing a robotic array for a telescope project that will produce a 3-D map of the universe including millions of galaxies. Ten robots will be tested in a prototype called ProtoDESI, and the full project, called DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument), will feature 5,000 […]
Using a robotic telescope at Lick Observatory that scans the sky night after night, astronomers have discovered three planets – supersized Earths ‑ around a nearby star. “The three planets are unlike anything in our solar system, with masses seven to eight times the mass of Earth and orbits very close to their host star,” […]