For more than 400 years, astronomers both professional and amateur have taken a special interest in observing Mira stars, a class of variable red giants famous for pulsations that last for 80-1,000 ...

Purdue faculty dedicate countless hours to exploring the frontiers of their respective fields, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and contributing to the ever-evolving landscape of academia. To ...

Ground-based interferometry on Earth has proven to be a successful method for conducting science by combining light from several telescopes into acting like a single large telescope. But how can an ...

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 ...

Scientists have directly observed an exoplanet in a whole new way, thanks to an instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Telescopes are more than just ...

Astronomy is one of the most ancient sciences that humanity has ever pursued. Since the dawn of civilisation, mankind has gazed at the night sky, awed and inspired by its black emptiness, the apparent ...

The size and weight of advanced astronomical telescopes pose a constant challenge to engineers aiming to launch them into Earth orbit, so any routes to improve matters without compromising on ...

Interferometry is a measurement technique that exploits the superposition of coherent waves, typically electromagnetic or matter waves, to extract precise information from the resulting interference ...