News tagged with gran telescopio canarias
Huge telescope opens in Spain's Canary Islands
(AP) -- One of the world's most powerful telescopes opened its shutters for the first time Friday to begin exploring faint light from distant parts of the universe. The Gran Telescopio Canarias, a euro130 ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Astronomers, royalty, rock stars to inaugurate world's largest telescope
Four hundred years after Galileo first turned his handmade telescope toward the heavens, the world's largest, most technologically advanced telescope is set to make its formal debut.
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Discovery refutes previous theory about galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest optical telescope has allowed University of Florida astronomers to see new details about deep space galaxies, finding new clues to explain the evolution of galaxies like our own.
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Astronomers start testing infrared camera at world's largest telescope
University of Florida astronomers are testing a new infrared camera this summer at the world’s largest telescope that will allow researchers to look for planets outside our own solar system and better explore hidden ...
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Astronomers track long, strange voyage of distant planet
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Pittsburgh planet hunters based at the Allegheny Observatory were one of nine teams around the world that tracked a planet 190 light-years from Earth making its rare 12-hour passage in front ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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With new technique, astronomers find potassium in giant planet's atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- Any driver who's seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects.
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Galaxy encounter fires up quasar
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using two of the world’s largest telescopes, an international team of astronomers have found evidence of a collision between galaxies driving intense activity in a highly luminous quasar. ...
Jun 24, 2010 |
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UF astronomers pioneer new planet-observing technique
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the world’s largest optical telescope, a team of University of Florida astronomers has pioneered a new method of observing planets outside our solar system. The method suggests that large Earth-based ...
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Sea level stargazing: Astronomers make key sighting with Florida telescope
(PhysOrg.com) -- This summer, University of Florida astronomers inaugurated the world's largest optical telescope on a nearly 8,000-foot mountaintop 3,480 miles away. But it was a far more modest observatory, located just ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Sophisticated telescope camera debuts with peek at nest of black holes
Less than two months after they inaugurated the world's largest telescope, University of Florida astronomers have used one of the world's most advanced telescopic instruments to gather images of the heavens.
Sep 15, 2009 |
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NASA Scientists Pioneer Method for Making Giant Lunar Telescopes
Scientists working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2008 |
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World’s largest telescope to make first observations Friday
The world’s largest telescope will take its first peek into the heavens this week, ushering the University of Florida into the top ranks of the “big observers,” as one astronomy professor put it.
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Jul 09, 2007 |
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