US EditionGiant Liquid Mirrors Could Revolutionize the Hunt for Habitable Worlds
SPACE, JUL 10 – The Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) concept uses liquid mirrors larger than traditional ones to overcome size limits, enabling adaptable and self-correcting space telescopes for the 2030s.
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Giant liquid mirrors could revolutionize the hunt for habitable worlds
Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and nearly eight times wider than the James Webb Space Telescope. Now imagine that this enormous mirror is made not of precisely manufactured glass segments, but of liquid floating in space. This might sound like science fiction, but it's the cutting-edge concept behind the Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE), a joint NASA-Technion proj…
Giant Liquid Mirrors Could Revolutionise the Hunt for Habitable Worlds
A team of researchers has cracked the code for building space telescopes with mirrors the size of a soccer field, not from perfectly figured glass, but from liquid floating in zero gravity! The new research reveals how a 50-metre liquid mirror telescope could maintain its optical quality for decades despite the constant slewing motions needed to observe different stars, with deformations taking years to propagate from the edges toward the centre…
Imagine a space telescope with a mirror that extends 50 meters in diameter! It's bigger than the width of a football field in the UK and almost eight times wider than the James Webb space telescope. Imagine now that this huge mirror is not made of accurately manufactured glass segments, but [...]
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