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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 ...
Nine institutions officially sign agreement for 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope
Feb 06, 2009 |
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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Corporation is pleased to announce that nine astronomical research organizations from three continents have signed the Founders' Agreement to construct and operate the 25-meter ...
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Giant Magellan telescope site selected
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 04, 2007 |
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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Consortium announces that the GMT will be constructed at Cerro Las Campanas, Chile. This location was selected for its high altitude, dry climate, dark skies, and unsurpassed seeing quality, ...
Giant telescope will keep an eye on planets in other solar systems
Dec 29, 2004 |
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MIT astrophysicists and their colleagues are excited about the latest milestone toward developing a giant telescope that among other things will allow direct observations of planets orbiting stars in solar syste ...
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 ...
First Giant Magellan Telescope Mirror Casting is 'Perfect'
Oct 28, 2005 |
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The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab's casting of the first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) "appears to be essentially perfect," UA Steward Observatory director Peter Strittmatter ...
Many, perhaps most, nearby sun-like stars may form rocky planets
Feb 17, 2008 |
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Astronomers have discovered that terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in the disk of our galaxy. These new results suggest that worlds with potential for life ...
Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating atmospheric disturbances.
Mysterious space blob discovered at cosmic dawn (w/Video)
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, led by Carnegie's Masami Ouchi, have discovered a mysterious, giant object that existed when the universe was only 800 million years old. Dubbed an extended "Lyman-Alpha ...
Exoplanet atmospheres detected from Earth for the first time
Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Transiting exoplanets are routinely detected when they pass in front of their parent star as viewed from the Earth, which only happens by chance. The transit event causes a small drop in the ...
Major milestone: First two ALMA telescope antennas linked
May 06, 2009 |
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On 30 April, the team observed the first "interferometric fringes" of an astronomical source by linking two 12-metre diameter ALMA antennas, together with the other critical parts of the system. Mars was chosen ...
The coldest brown dwarf ever observed
Apr 10, 2008 |
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An international team led by French and Canadian astronomers has just discovered the coldest brown dwarf ever observed. Their results will soon be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. This new finding was ma ...
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