Telescope Buying Tips
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As we approach the holiday    season, many people may consider the purchase of a telescope. You might already    have seen telescope ads in newspapers, catalogues or on TV shopping channels.    A typical ad might say something like this:
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Don't settle for an HDTV: Pay off a credit card.
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Years in the planning, one of the world's most powerful telescopes sees its first light over the weekend. It should be fully operational by next May.
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How to find the best choices in a crowded market.
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Review Mid-range features, performance for under Â£100?
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By FRANK GRIFFITHS    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico  -- The radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory will begin mapping the known galaxy on Friday, scientists said.    The radio telescope, the world's most sensitive listening device that is powerful enough to hear planets forming several billion lights years away, received six more radio receivers to expand its range...
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By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN     PHOENIX  -- 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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James Webb's eye is lookin' good After a rather difficult week, some good news for NASA: its engineers have just finished making the mirror that will be the eye of its next space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). All that remains is for it to be ground and polished.â¦
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Is this newly discovered feeble point of light the long-sought bona-fide image of an exoplanet? A research paper by an international team of astronomers provides sound arguments in favor, but the definitive answer is now awaiting further observations.
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IT IS THE SEASON for stars. What to most of us are simply pinpoints of light in a dark night sky are to astronomers much more. Dwarfs, subgiants, supergiants, single-line and spectroscopic double starsthe
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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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New and relatively cheap telescope technology is putting the universe into incredibly sharp focus. Is the Hubble being rendered obsolete?
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AMBER Instrument on VLT Delivers a Wealth of ResultsThe ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, which allows astronomers to scrutinise objects with a precision equivalent to that of a 130-m telescope, is proving itself an unequalled success every day.
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What you should know before buying a car.
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CULVER CITY, Calif. - About $2,500 will buy a 50-inch, high-end Panasonic flat-panel TV, large enough for almost any living room. Or it will buy an 11-inch Sony, smaller than most laptop screens. Sound crazy? When this tiny television makes its U.S. debut Monday at the Consumer Electronics trade show in Las Vegas, people are expected to line up to see it.
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A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world&#39;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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Ten must-have gadgets that will fit student budgets large or small