Adaptive optics

We've written about electronically adaptive eye-glasses that can switch between everyday and reading modes at the touch of a button before, but nothing has made it to the wider market yet. So this Japanese company's TouchFocus design might be the first to get the concept up and running.

Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have achieved first light with a cutting-edge adaptive optics mode for the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), designed to remove interference caused by Earth’s atmosphere.

Researchers at Stanford University have built some VR display prototypes that adapt to the eyes of each wearer, which could pave the way for more comfortable virtual experiences for everyone, regardless of age, eyesight or focusing problems.

Astronomers from the Leiden Observatory, Netherlands, and the University of Rochester, New York, have discovered a massive ring system obscuring the light of the young star J1407b.

A new scientific instrument for detecting and observing remote exoplanets has been successfully installed on Unit 3 of the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and has returned its first images.

Using an infrared camera, astronomers at the University of Montreal have discovered and directly imaged GU Psc b, a planet with a mass 10 times greater than Jupiter's.

Astronomers have developed a new visible-light adaptive optics (AO) system for a 6.5 meter telescope in Chile's Atacama desert. The new AO system produces the sharpest telescopic images ever captured – images twice as sharp as can be achieved by the Hubble space telescope.

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), to be completed in 2020, will combine seven of the world's largest telescope mirrors to reach a resolution 10 times greater than Hubble, allowing us to answer open questions on the origin of the universe.

The astrophysics research arm of the American Museum of Natural History has developed methods for examining an entire stellar system of exoplanets simultaneously.

The new laser adaptive optics system eliminates twinkling in night-time skies, so telescopes can better observe celestial objects.

European scientists have developed an astronomical camera that has the speed and sensitivity to overcome atmospheric disturbance.