When I first moved into my apartment, I knew I wanted to have a nice, big mirror. My reasoning didn’t have much to do with being able to take full-body mirror selfies (although don’t get me wrong, I ...

aluminized the mirror of the largest single-mirror telescope in North America. Technicians at the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins bolted a vacuum chamber directly over the 6.5-meter (21.5 – foot) ...

The mirror blank for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has been moved a few feet at a time over the past seven years by its creators at the University of Arizona’s Richard Caris Mirror Lab. It is ...

When it launches in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will let us see deeper into the universe than ever before. Its enormous eye is centered around 18 octagonal mirrors which assemble to form the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — An enormous telescope that could help unlock many of the mysteries of the cosmos is really starting to come together. The third of the seven primary mirrors for the Giant Magellan ...