News tagged with infrared interferometry

Earth-like Planets May Be Ready for Their Close-Up

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists speculate that our galaxy could be full of places like Pandora from the movie "Avatar" -- Earth-like worlds in solar systems besides our own.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hundred metre virtual telescope captures unique detailed colour image

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of French astronomers has captured one of the sharpest color images ever made. They observed the star T Leporis, which appears, on the sky, as small as a two-storey house on the Moon. ...

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created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0




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Three-telescope interferometry allows astrophysicists to observe how black holes are fueled

(Phys.org) -- By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The amazing technology that crafted the Webb Telescope technology

The creation of the next generation James Webb Space Telescope was only possible as a result of imagining and developing the industrial machines that would make it a reality. In the near future, some of that ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Penn State expert determined to find life on Earth-like planets

Thanks to popular Hollywood films like "E.T.," "Avatar" and "Super 8," life on other planets seems highly conceivable to people who have considered the idea that we are not alone in the universe. Jim Kasting, distinguished ...

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created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Supergiant star with a thick dust disc

How is it possible that HD 62623, a hot super-giant star on the verge of death, is surrounded by a disc, generally only associated with infant stars? Using long-baseline stellar interferometry at ESO's VLT ...

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created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scientists capture 'terrifying' Tolkien-like eclipse (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have captured a 'terrifying' image of a giant Goliath-like star undergoing a two year eclipse. First discovered by a German astronomer 180 years ago, it is the first close-up image of an eclipse ...

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created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

How to hunt for exoplanets

A new report launched by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Exoplanets - The search for planets beyond our solar system explains how new technological advances have seen the discovery of more than 400 exoplanets to date, a number ...

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created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Keck Telescopes Take Deeper Look at Planetary Nurseries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have peered far into a young planetary system, giving an unprecedented view of dust and gas that might eventually form planets similar to Jupiter, ...

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created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Close-up photos of dying star show our sun's fate (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- About 550 light-years from Earth, a star like our Sun is writhing in its death throes. Chi Cygni has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that it would swallow every planet ...

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 5

Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the ...

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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