Skip to main content

Reset your password

Please enter the e-mail address you used to register to reset your password

Note: The verification e-mail to change your password should arrive immediately. However, in some cases it takes longer. Don't forget to check your spam folder.

If you haven't received the e-mail in 24 hours, please contact customerservices@ioppublishing.org

Registration complete

Thank you for registering with Physics World
If you'd like to change your details at any time, please visit My account

Close
Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Membrane mirrors take off for use in large space telescopes

26 Apr 2023 Isabelle Dumé
A space telescope illustration
Lightweight and low cost: researchers have developed a new way to make telescope mirrors that could enable much larger, and thus more sensitive, telescopes to be placed in orbit. (Courtesy: Sebastian Rabien, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
Extremely large telescopes in space- or balloon-based observatories will require mirrors that are mu

You’ve reached the limit of what you can view on Physics World without registering

If you already have an account on Physics World, then please sign in to continue reading

If you do not yet have an account, please register so you can

  • Access more than 20 years of online content
  • Choose which e-mail newsletters you would like to receive
Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World
Read previous

Colour-resolved Cherenkov imaging improves the accuracy of radiotherapy dose monitoring
Read next

Reconfigurable metasurface steers incoherent light in less than a picosecond

Discover more from Physics World

Related jobs

Related events

Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors