News tagged with telescope array
Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy ...
SETI Astronomer Envisions Technology Capable of Receiving ET Signals by 2032
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- SETI, (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak and host of the weekly radio show "Are We Alone," predicted during a recent conference in San Francisco that ...
Allen Telescope Array begins all-sky surveys
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With commissioning of the 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) nearly complete, UC Berkeley astronomers are now embarking on several major radio astronomy projects, including daily surveys of ...
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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.
Largest virtual telescope for short wavelengths opened
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Astronomers have succeeded in combining three telescopes in Hawaii using advanced computer techniques. This virtual telescope, with a diameter of 782 metres, studies the formation of new stars and planets ...
Herschel's daring test: A glimpse of things to come
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Herschel opened its 'eyes' on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, 'the whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation. Scientists obtained images in three colours ...
ALMA telescope reaches new heights
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory took another step forward and upward, as one of its state-of-the-art antennas was carried for the first time to Chile's 16,500-foot-high ...
High-Tech 'Heart' of New-Generation Radio Telescope Passes First Test
Aug 12, 2008 |
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The Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA), part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), took a giant step toward completion on August 7 with successful testing of advanced digital hardware designed ...
ALMA observatory equipped with its first antenna
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2008 |
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High in the Atacama region in northern Chile, one of the world's most advanced telescopes has just passed a major milestone. The first of many state-of-the-art antennas has just been handed over to the Atacama ...
Australia and NZealand join in super telescope bid
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Australia and New Zealand announced a joint bid Friday for a giant radio telescope project which will reach for the earliest traces of the universe in a search for intelligent life.
Astronomers seek to explore the cosmic Dark Ages
Oct 15, 2009 |
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No place seems safe from the prying eyes of inquisitive astronomers. They've traced the evolution of the universe back to the "Big Bang," the theoretical birth of the cosmos 13.7 billion years ago, but there's still a long ...
MIT to lead development of new telescopes on moon
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Feb 19, 2008 |
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NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. The agency announced ...
APEX reveals glowing stellar nurseries
Nov 11, 2008 |
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The region, called RCW120, is about 4200 light years from Earth, towards the constellation of Scorpius. A hot, massive star in its centre is emitting huge amounts of ultraviolet radiation, which ionises the ...
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