Last of six meter-scale optical components delivered to SLAC, with CCD camera’s shipment to Chile expected next summer. The last of the enormous optical components for what will become the world’s ...

Spectral Instruments Inc. has been building custom scientific cameras for imaging objects as small as a neutron and as large as a galaxy cluster since 1993 in labs west of the Santa Cruz River near ...

Hora, Joseph L., Carey, Sean, Surace, Jason, Marengo, Massimo, Lowrance, Patrick, Glaccum, William J., Lacy, Mark, Reach, William T., Hoffmann, William F., Barmby ...

Digital imaging innovators Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics today for their groundbreaking work on the first digital image sensor, the CCD. The CCD, or charge ...

We report the discovery of the transiting hot Jupiter KPS-1b. This exoplanet orbits a V = 13.0 K1-type mainsequence star every 1.7 days, has a mass of 1.090 −0.087 +0.086 MJup and a radius of 1.03 ...