Donors Bring Big Telescope a Step Closer
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A project to build a digital camera of cosmic dimensions on a mountaintop in Chile has received a $30 million boost from a pair of software moguls and philanthropists.
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The giant Diamond synchrotron being built in England is to receive a further Â£120m of funding.
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Support is growing for a human mission to be sent to repair the Hubble space telescope instead of robots.
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The telescopeâs 34-foot-wide mirror, one of the largest in the world, is designed to take advantage of pristine skies over the northern Atlantic islands.
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A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world's most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year.
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A radio telescope that will seek out deep space radio signals to help scientists learn more about the creation of the universe is under development by a Netherlands-based space foundation and IBM.
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_ Astronomers say a new camera atop Mauna Kea will be able to capture images 36-hundred times larger that those taken by the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK obtain some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes will peer into space for the first time on Friday.
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By Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jan. 31--The Advanced Camera for Surveys, the workhorse main camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope since it was first installed in March 2002, might have taken its last breath-taking photograph that has brought humankind to new vistas of outer space.
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Taxpayers are funding a telescope to  search for space aliens and research devoted to improving the  shelf-life of vegetables, part of $13.2 billion in  special-interest projects the U.S. Congress approved last year,  a private watchdog group said on Wednesday.
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Astronomers produce amazing pictures using a remarkable new instrument on the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii.
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MT. SIERRA NEGRA, Mexico  - Perched on the top of  one of Mexico's highest mountains is a gigantic, half-built  telescope that scientists hope will reveal more secrets of the  universe's early years than any before it.
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One of the world's most powerful telescopes will be trained on the skies on Friday, searching for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.
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NASA's next Moon rocket is still on the drawing board, but already scientists are dreaming up big new things to do with it--such as launching giant telescopes into space.
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By casting a wide net, astronomers have captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes.
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AUSTIN, Texas &mdash; The orbiting space telescope that just won't quit collecting gobs of celestial data well beyond its expected twilight is set for a major tune-up and upgrade, NASA scientists announced today here at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.