News tagged with optical instrument
Subaru telescope pioneers the use of adaptive optics for optical observations
A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific observationswith ...
May 25, 2012 |
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New microscope uses rainbow of light to image the flow of individual blood cells
Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same ...
May 21, 2012 |
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The new world of gamma-ray optics
Scientists discover that certain materials like silicon or gold exhibit a surprisingly large refractive index for extremely high energetic gamma-rays.
May 14, 2012 |
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NASA engineers testing Webb telescope's OSIM and BIA instruments
(Phys.org) -- Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope are being tested in the giant thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, ...
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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Blocked holes can enhance rather than stop light going through
Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing ...
Nov 22, 2011 |
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The search for planets and stars out of this world
There are a lot of things someone could do in nearly 900 hours.
Jun 06, 2011 |
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XPP instrument blasts past key milestones
(PhysOrg.com) -- The X-ray Pump Probe instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source is installed and ready for its first user experiments several weeks ahead of schedule, thanks in part to funds provided by ...
Oct 05, 2010 |
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New phenomenon found in internal waves
(PhysOrg.com) -- Internal waves -- huge but nearly invisible ripples that occur in the oceans, the atmosphere and stars -- can play an important role in climate change and other processes, but there is plenty ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes
Noted for harbouring Eta Carinae -- one of the wildest and most massive stars in our galaxy -- the impressive Carina Nebula also houses a handful of massive clusters of young stars. The youngest of these stellar ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?
(PhysOrg.com) -- While not the smallest lettering ever created, the tiny initials "LCLS" have been written with what may be the world's most potent pen. Etched into boron carbide, a super-hard substance used ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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A Look into the Hellish Cradles of Suns and Solar Systems
The dense star cluster RCW 38 glistens about 5500 light years away in the direction of the constellation Vela (the Sails). Like the Orion Nebula Cluster, RCW 38 is an "embedded cluster", in that the nascent ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Double engine for a nebula
(PhysOrg.com) -- The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. It is part of a ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Stellar family in crowded, violent neighborhood proves to be surprisingly normal
The massive Arches Cluster is a rather peculiar star cluster. It is located 25 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer), and contains about a thousand young, massive stars, ...
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Caravaggio used photographic techniques: researcher
Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio used revolutionary optical instruments to "photograph" his models more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to a researcher in Florence.
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Laser-sculpted optical devices for future giant telescopes
Future telescopes, with mirrors half the size of a football field, will need special components to deal with the light they collect. Astronomers are turning to photonic devices that guide and manipulate light inside specially-designed ...
Feb 05, 2009 |
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