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Science & Tech News tagged with telescope

First High-Res Image of Binary Star In Heart Of Orion Nebula
Science & Tech  (tags: telescope, astronomy, NewTechnology, Discoveries )

Ingrid
- 237 days ago - skynightly.com
The new image clearly separates the two young, massive stars of this system. The observations have a spatial resolution of about 2 milliarcseconds, corresponding to the apparent size of a car on the surface of the Moon.
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ON THIS DAY - 1960: Radio Telescope Makes Space History
Science & Tech  (tags: on this day, telescope, radio telescope, jodrell bank, britain, uk, england, space, universe )

Chrissy
- 258 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The British radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire has set a new space record making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles. The previous record, about 290,000 miles, was set by the Soviet satellite Lunik III, wh
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"Renegade" Stars Tearing Across Universe, Hubble Shows
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SirRobert
- 319 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Ripples in cosmic gas that resemble speedboat wakes, have revealed renegade stars barreling through the Universe at more than 112,000 miles per hour.
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Sharpest Infrared Image Of Milky Way's Core Unveiled
Science & Tech  (tags: Milky Way, galaxy, galactic core, Hubble, telescope, infrared, astronomy, energy, environment, interesting, news, research, science, scientists, space, society, world, technology )

SirRobert
- 322 days ago - newscientist.com
The Milky Way's galactic-core came into unprecedented focus, as astronomers released the sharpest infrared pictures yet!
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The Largest Telescope in the World - GTC
Science & Tech  (tags: Telescope, biggest, largest, GTC, telescopio, Canarias, GCS )


- 411 days ago - superpastime.com
The Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), is a telescope with a size of 10.4m in diameter; has a largest segmented primary mirror.
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Brightest Explosion Ever Seen
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, telescope, gamma ray, space, universe, brightest explosion )

Eduardo
- 415 days ago - scientificcomputing.com
Astronomers from around the world have combined data from ground- and space-based telescopes to paint a detailed portrait of the Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen. the jets were aimed almost directly at the Earth.
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SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER: Exploding Star Caught in the Act
Science & Tech  (tags: Astronomy, astophysics, supernova, galaxy, star, sun, science, telescope )

Rooibos
- 554 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Astronomers have been able to capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart. After decades of searching, researchers have used the world's top telescopes to observe the remarkable event.
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Astronomers 'Listen' to An Exoplanet-Host Star and Find Its Birthplace
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J.
- 591 days ago - eso.org
Using HARPS on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla,astronomers were able to study in great detail the star Iota Horologii, known to harbor a giant planet. Its temperature is 6150 K, it's mass is 1.25 times that of the Sun, and its age is 625 million years.
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Scientists Detect Amino Acetonitrile Near the Center of Our Milky Way
Science & Tech  (tags: science, technology, discovery, astrophysics, acetonitrile, amino, astronomers, glycine, interstellar, molecule, spectral, telescope, Australia Telescope Compact Array, Radioastronomy, Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy )

J.
- 609 days ago - mpg.de
A new organic molecule was found in space with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the "Large Molecule Heimat", a giant gas cloud near the galactic center in the constellation Sagittarius B2.
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Eyes on the Stars, Even Under Cloudy Skies
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, study, technology, nasa, astronomy, space, world, scientists, internet, telescope, electromagnetic spectrum, galaxy, spectroscopy, star, starburst galaxy] )

J.
- 610 days ago - web.mit.edu
NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility perched 14,000 feet above sea level on the summit of Hawaii's extinct volcano Mauna Kea has been set up so that it can be controlled from anywhere in the world through a high-speed Internet connection.
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Giant Telescope Opens Both Eyes
Science & Tech  (tags: science, telescope )

Ingrid
- 629 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The world's most powerful optical telescope has opened both of its eyes.
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Nasa Plans to Put Telescope on Moon
Science & Tech  (tags: moon, telescope, universe )

Ingrid
- 632 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Nasa is to put a powerful telescope on the moon, with hopes that it could help reveal the origins of the universe.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2008 February 16 - Large Binocular Telescope
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, telescope, observatory )

Blue
- 650 days ago - antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
With moonlight on the horizon, a starry sky and the northern Milky Way provide the background for this dramatic view of the World at Night.
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Light Echoes Whisper the Distance to a Star
Science & Tech  (tags: science, news, technology, astronomers, Cepheid, distance, galaxies, nebula, star, telescope, astronomy, research, discovery, space, study )

J.
- 655 days ago - alphagalileo.org
An ESO telescope measured the distance of a bright star located towards the constellation of Puppis ('the Stern') Cepheid.Observations of the echoes on several nebula features found the distance of RS Pup was 6500 light years,plus or minus 90 years.
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Cosmic Suburbia Is a Better Breeding Ground for Stars
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Spitzer, space, telescope, images, technology, research, astronomy, science, interesting, discovery )

J.
- 670 days ago - jpl.nasa.gov
New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's supersensitive eyes have caught an infrared glimpse of several galaxies travelling along two filamentary roads into a galaxy cluster called Abell 1763.
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