News tagged with radiotelescope
Debate still raging on site for super-telescope
An international consortium planning to build the world's most powerful radiotelescope is still debating whether South Africa or Australia should host the $2 billion project, an official said Friday.
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Swift finds a gamma-ray burst with a dual personality (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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LOFAR: World's biggest radiotelescope launched in Netherlands
Scientists in the Netherlands unveiled the largest radiotelescope in the world on Saturday, saying it was capable of detecting faint signals from almost as far back as the Big Bang.
Jun 13, 2010 |
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Powerful NIST detectors on Hawaiian telescope to probe origins of stars, planets and galaxies
The world’s largest submillimeter camera—based on superconducting technology designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—is now ready to scan the universe, including faint and faraway ...
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star ...
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Space debris: Europe to set up monitor
The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to start monitoring orbital debris within the next few years, an official said Thursday at the close of the largest-ever conference on a worsening space peril.
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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Jupiter-like planets could form around twin suns
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field.
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Ghostly glow reveals galaxy clusters in collision
A team of scientists, including astronomers from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have detected long wavelength radio emission from a colliding, massive galaxy cluster which, surprisingly, is not detected ...
Oct 15, 2008 |
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Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe
A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted ...
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Dedicated SETI Optical Telescope Starts Work
The Planetary Society dedicated its new optical telescope Tuesday in a new dedicated effort to search for light signals from alien civilizations. Its 72-inch primary mirror is the largest of any optical telescope in the United ...
Apr 17, 2006 |
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Geologists Use Particles from Galaxy's Far Reaches to Understand Processes at Earth's Surface
Scientists at the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Commission of the European Union have announced a new initiative - called CRONUS, for cosmic-ray produced nuclide systematics - to measure ...
Jul 14, 2005 |
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Huygens Probe Successfully Detached to Begin Its Final Journey
The ESA's Huygens probe has successfully detached from NASA's Cassini orbiter early this morning to begin a 21-day journey to Saturn's moon Titan. NASA's Deep Space Network tracking stations in Madrid, Spain, ...
Dec 25, 2004 |
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NSF awards NJIT physicist $832,927 to study radio waves
Solar physicists want to know more about the sun's magnetic fields because they are cited as the cause behind potentially damaging outbursts such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Such ejections sometimes throw ...
Sep 27, 2004 |
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