Premium telescope mirror manufacturing involves a multi-stage process beginning with grinding a mirror blank to a precise parabolic curve using grit and water, followed by polishing and figuring to ...

Mirrors are arguably one of the most common items you might come across on a day-to-day basis. Today, these items are in virtually every bathroom, and some people also have decorative mirrors in other ...

Aug. 31—CANTON — A massive 11-foot-wide mirror, created in Canton, is installed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The mirror will help scientists identify potentially harmful asteroids and ...

Scientists at the LOA (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée) in France succeeded for the first time to drive at a thousand shots per second a so-called plasma mirror in the relativistic regime, i.e. with a ...

To summon spirits, sixteenth-century English astrologer John Dee, a confidant of Queen Elizabeth I, gazed into a mirror made of polished stone. Now, researchers have confirmed that Dee’s mirror has ...

Sometimes, the art of making mirrors has little to do with reflection. By Stephen Wallis This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for handmade objects. Part of human ...