News tagged with telescope array
Gearing up for data deluge from world's biggest radio telescope
The amount of computer data generated by the entire world in a whole year will need to be stored in a single day for the world's most powerful telescope − the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) − and ...
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The turbulent birth of super star clusters in galaxy mergers
By combining two of the most advanced telescopes in the world -- the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO -- a team of French astronomers from the Institut d'astrophysique ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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NASA's NuSTAR ships to Vandenberg for March 14 launch
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays ...
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Jan 25, 2012 |
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Iconic telescope renamed to honor founder of radio astronomy
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most famous radio telescope will become the "Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array" to honor the founder of radio astronomy, the study of the Universe via radio waves naturally emitted ...
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Jan 11, 2012 |
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Africa pitches new promised land for astronomers
Africa, the birthplace of the human species, has long been a magnet for archaeologists.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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S.Africa ideal for world's largest telescope: minister
South Africa is well-placed to host the world's largest telescope because the costs would be lower, according to the deputy science minister.
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Dec 13, 2011 |
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SETI search resumes at allen telescope array, targeting new planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet ...
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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Space Image: North American Nebula
This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent ...
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Oct 19, 2011 |
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Observatory seeks a new name for transformed scientific icon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most famous radio telescope in the world is about to get a new name. The Very Large Array, known around the world, isn't what it used to be. The iconic radio telescope, known around the ...
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Oct 14, 2011 |
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Community computing project TheSkyNet launched
A community computing science initiative to help discover the hidden Universe was officially launched yesterday at Curtin University by Western Australia's Minister for Science and Innovation, the Hon. John Day.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Jodie Foster helps keep search for aliens alive
"Contact" star Jodie Foster was among donors helping to revive the 42 radio telescope dishes at a key California institute searching for extraterrestrial life, the group said Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2011 |
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The hidden galaxy in the zone of avoidance
There are some places astronomers dare not tread. One of the prime places is beyond the disk of our own galaxy where the numerous stars and clouds of dust along the line of sight make observations messy to ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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SETI's telescopes to go back online, resuming hunt for alien life
This week the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced that it had raised more than $200,000 from a crowd-sourced fundraising effort that launched earlier this spring. The money, which came from ...
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Making a spectacle of star formation in Orion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, this nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Expanded VLA flexing new scientific muscle
A new and uniquely powerful tool for cutting-edge science is emerging on the crisp, high desert of western New Mexico. Outwardly, it looks much the same as the famed Very Large Array (VLA), a radio telescope ...
May 24, 2011 |
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