Proposed NASA Mission Employs “Lobster-Eye” Optics to Locate Source of Cosmic Ripples
Proposed NASA Mission Employs “Lobster-Eye” Optics to Locate Source of Cosmic Ripples
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.