Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), a six-telescope interferometer, excels at studying stars. It's been observing them for 20 years and has contributed to ...

Artistic depiction of a Be star and its disk (upper right) orbited by a faint, hot, stripped star (lower left). Credit: Painting by William Pounds Scientists working with the powerful telescopes at ...

Plans are underway to add a seventh movable telescope to Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy— known as the CHARA Array—that would increase the resolution, or the ...

ATLANTA--Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) in Mount Wilson, Calif., has been awarded $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation's Major Research ...

Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) and the French company ALPAO have signed a contract for the development of an adaptive optics upgrade for the CHARA ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

The death of a massive, rapidly spinning star can shake the universe. And the resulting ripples—known as gravitational waves—could be felt by instruments on Earth, according to new research published ...

Georgia State’s CHARA array is an optical interferometer located on Mount Wilson, California CREDIT Georgia State University Plans are underway to add a seventh movable telescope to Georgia State ...