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Spitzer Space Telescope: Warmed Up and Ready to Go
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2009 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has put its infrared eyes back on the sky to observe the cold and dusty universe.
Australia gets $72 million for the Giant Magellan Telescope
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Pasadena, CA-The Australian government has announced that it will provide $88.4 million AUD ($72.4 million USD) to help fund the revolutionary 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) to be sited at Las Campanas ...
Huge telescope opens in Spain's Canary Islands
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- One of the world's most powerful telescopes opened its shutters for the first time Friday to begin exploring faint light from distant parts of the universe. The Gran Telescopio Canarias, a euro130 ...
University of Utah celebrates telescope's 'first light'
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception ...
Keeping a 'trained eye' on the James Webb Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2009 |
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NASA and Northrop Grumman are keeping a "trained eye" on the James Webb Space Telescope, by training their engineers on how to handle and assemble the telescope's Optical Telescope Element (OTE), also known ...
World's largest telescope to be built in Hawaii
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hawaii was chosen Tuesday as the site for the world's biggest telescope, a device so powerful that it will allow scientists to see some 13 billion light years away and get a glimpse into the early ...
Surprise Collision on Jupiter Captured by Gemini Telescope
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter is sporting a glowing bruise after getting unexpectedly whacked by a small solar system object, according to astronomers using the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i. A ...
CSIRO sets science path for new telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 09, 2009 |
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CSIRO has chosen the major science projects that its Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope will tackle in its first five years.
Astronomers, royalty, rock stars to inaugurate world's largest telescope
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Four hundred years after Galileo first turned his handmade telescope toward the heavens, the world's largest, most technologically advanced telescope is set to make its formal debut.
Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery ...
NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope ...
School Kids Track LCROSS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon.
Eyes to the skies for the 'Galilean Nights'
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Astronomers around the world are gearing up for three days of intense sky-watching in honour of Galileo, whose observations 400 years ago revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos.
Astronomers reveal a 'blue whale of space'
Jul 07, 2009 |
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CSIRO astronomers have revealed the hidden face of an enormous galaxy called Centaurus A, which emits a radio glow covering an area 200 times bigger than the full Moon.
James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape at Goddard
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space ...
