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Astronomer Developed World's Largest and Most Advanced Digital Camera for a Telescope

News - 9 Oct 2007

The University of Hawaii astronomer who led development of the world's largest and most advanced digital camera for a telescope on Haleakala, Maui, says he is "shocked at how well it's...
ESA to Put the Largest Space Telescope Into Orbit

News - 8 Oct 2007

The European Space Agency offered a preview look Thursday at its powerful Herschel, which, when launched next year, will be the largest space telescope yet put into orbit. And, get this, it's...
Cheshire to Become Headquarters to Co-Ordinate Next Generation Radio Telescopes

News - 8 Oct 2007

Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire is to become the headquarters of a global plan to co-ordinate the next generation of radio telescopes. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be 50 times more...
Distant Strip of Universe Available As Part of Google Sky

News - 8 Oct 2007

A global project to map a distant strip of the universe is releasing its data today to scientists and the public to be used as part of Google Sky, a new feature of Google Earth, according to...
European Space Agency to Launch Largest Telescope Ever Flown in Space

News - 6 Oct 2007

The European Space Agency's (ESA) next big project is a step closer to being launch-ready, as scientists in Germany complete the "mating" of Herschel's two most fundamental modules,...
NuSTAR to Expand Our Understanding of the Origins of Stars and Galaxies

News - 4 Oct 2007

NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. The Nuclear Spectroscopic...
19 Individual Mirrors to Function as One Very Sensitive Telescope

News - 3 Oct 2007

Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb...
NOAA GOES-R Set to Launch in 2014

News - 3 Oct 2007

NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites Program, has awarded an instrument contract to Lockheed Martin...
New NASA Gamma-Ray Telescope Allows Scientists to Study Black Holes and Other Phenomena

News - 1 Oct 2007

A new NASA space telescope will give scientists a peek at some of the most energetic objects and events in the universe. The new Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope to be launched next spring...
The Trilobite Data Show a Different Process at Work

News - 27 Sep 2007

We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters. Last week she sat in an audience of nearly two hundred colleagues at the "Living with a...

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