The Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) has filmed the passing of the moon in front of Antares, a bright ...

Someday an unlucky outburst from our sun could strike Earth and fry most of our electronics—and we’ve already had some too-close-for-comfort near misses ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Publications of the Astronomical Society... ABSTRACT In order to optimize the occulting process of a classical Lyot coronagraph for imaging faint ...

These devices are outfitted with black “occulting disks” and specialized optics to blot out the sun’s brightest light. Only ...

The halo of speckles around the coronagraph's occulting mask is caused by the wave-like properties of light from Alcor's residual glare. The actual diameters of both stars take up just a tiny ...

Eclipses occur when the Moon passes directly between Earth and our parent star, occulting much of the Sun’s light, and ...

This includes observing transiting exoplanets, occulting Trojan asteroids for helping NASA’s Lucy mission, and tracking near-Earth asteroids to help protect the Earth from a future asteroid impact.