New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia - 9NEWS.com
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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Sydney Morning Herald | New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia 9NEWS.com AP PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium ... Double vision a worry for telescope scientists Giant Telescope Project Goes to South Africa, Australia World's top telescope to call South Africa, Australia home |
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope sees a Spiral Within a Spiral Galaxy - Clarksville Online
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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Space Fellowship | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope sees a Spiral Within a Spiral Galaxy Clarksville Online Greenbelt, MD – NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so that ESO 498-G5′s core looks like a bit ... A spiral within a spiral galaxy |
Telescope Pioneers Adaptive Optics for Optical Observations - Space Ref (press release)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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Telescope Pioneers Adaptive Optics for Optical Observations Space Ref (press release) The team connected the Kyoto Tridimensional Spectrograph II (Kyoto3DII, Figure 1, Note 1) with the Subaru Telescope's Adaptive Optics system (AO188, Note 2) and improved the spatial resolution of images by a factor of 2.5 over images taken without AO. |
Tiny planet-finding mirrors borrow from Webb Telescope playbook - R & D Magazine
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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R & D Magazine | Tiny planet-finding mirrors borrow from Webb Telescope playbook R & D Magazine By Lori Keesey NASA's next flagship mission—the James Webb Space Telescope—will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory reaches its orbit in 2018. |
Mapping the night's starry skies - Arizona Daily Sun
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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Mapping the night's starry skies Arizona Daily Sun Different mounts for telescope line the array at the Naval Observatory's interferometer on Anderson Mesa. (Josh Biggs/Arizona Daily Sun) Six telescopes spread over several acres focus in on the same star from the US Naval Observatory's site on Anderson ... |
Recommended: Queen of SETI retires from research - msnbc.com
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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 Telegraph.co.uk | Recommended: Queen of SETI retires from research msnbc.com SETI astronomer Jill Tarter looks out from the radio dish named after her at the Allen Telescope Array in northern California. The array's 42 linked dishes search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. By Alan Boyle The real-life astronomer ... After 35 years, SETI celebrates its most-famous alien hunter SETI astronomer Jill Tarter retiring after 35-year alien hunt Outgoing Director Jill Tarter on the Future of SETI |
How to See the Moon: Telescope Viewing Tips - Space.com
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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msnbc.com | How to See the Moon: Telescope Viewing Tips Space.com If you look at the crescent moon closely, especially with binoculars or a small telescope, you will probably see a faint outline of the full globe of the moon. This ghostly moon is lit by light reflected from the nearly full Earth in the moon's sky. Look up and you can see the moon's 'dark side' Extraordinary eclipse -- Sunday's event was a joy for amateur astronomers and ... |
Mysterious Nebula Sharpless 2-71 Shines In Photo From Hawaii's Gemini North ... - Huffington Post
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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Mysterious Nebula Sharpless 2-71 Shines In Photo From Hawaii's Gemini North ... Huffington Post A telescope in Hawaii has captured a spectacular new view on a distant nebula, revealing a glowing swirl of gas that is at the center of an unsolved mystery surrounding the nebula's birth. The photo from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii shows the ... |
MORE ON THE STORY - RT
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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RT | MORE ON THE STORY RT Building a network of light telescopes and designing a cheap robotic probe are to be the first steps of Planetary Resources, a US-based company hoping to kick-start private development of asteroid mineral riches. Russian probes will visit Mars, ... |
Israeli Space Telescope On 'Clean Room' Ice For Years; May Never See Launch - Forbes
Saturday 26th of May 2012 10:18:47 PM
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Forbes | Israeli Space Telescope On 'Clean Room' Ice For Years; May Never See Launch Forbes For almost two decades now, TAUVEX, a $15 million ultraviolet (UV) space telescope, has been cooling its heels in clean rooms on two continents, waiting for a launch that never seems to come. The last time it was scheduled for launch in early 2010, ... |
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