Proposed NASA mission employs ‘lobster-eye’ optics to locate source of cosmic ripples

On: October 26, 2017

A novel optics system that mimics the structure of a lobster’s eyes would enable a conceptual Explorer-class mission to precisely locate, characterize, and alert other observatories to the source of gravitational waves, which are caused by some of the most powerful events in the universe.

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