NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just ...
Video: Astronomers monitor thousands of stars simultaneously in the hopes that one will be dimmed by the passing of an intervening small Kuiper Belt Object. The KBO transit event would last less than ...
The future of imaging extremely small objects may come down to doughnut-shaped beams of light, according to a study from researchers at JILA and the Department of Physics. The study explored the ...