Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That’s larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and nearly eight times wider than the James Webb Space Telescope. Now imagine that this enormous mirror is made not of precisely manufactured glass segments, but of liquid floating in space. This might sound like science fiction, but it’s the cutting-edge concept behind the Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE), a joint NASA-Technion project that could revolutionize how we explore the universe.
Giant liquid mirrors could revolutionize the hunt for habitable worlds
