Nations vie for giant telescope
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Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array, a giant next-generation radio telescope.
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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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Jodrell Bank Observatory -- European and US radio astronomers have demonstrated a new way of observing the Universe -- through the Internet!     Using cutting-edge technology, the researchers have managed to observe a distant star by using the world's research networks to create a giant virtual telescope. The process has allowed them to image the object with unprecedented detail, in real-time; something which only a few years ago would have been impossible...
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Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on the Big Island.
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A University of Kentucky professor is pushing to set up a telescope in Australia that students could use via the Internet.
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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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Tests on the world&#39;s largest infra-red telescope began Friday ahead of its scheduled opening in 2008, the Canaries Astrophysics Institute (IAC) announced.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, arguably one of the greatest achievements of the space program, needs to be rescued. And astronauts should be sent to do the job.
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Upcoming events around the world.
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CLOUDCROFT, N.M. - An observatory being refurbished near Cloudcroft is getting a new mission - providing telescope time for budding astronomers around the world.
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For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by Guy Perrin from the Paris Observatory/LESIA, (Meudon, France) and Stephen Ridgway from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (Tucson, Arizona, USA) has observed the close environment of
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One of the world's most powerful telescopes began spying on the universe on Friday, using its 34-foot wide mirror to search for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.
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A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.
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Scientists from across the United Kingdom met in London last week to consider exploring space by the use of compact, low-cost satellites. U.K.
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One of the world's most powerful telescopes will begin spying on the universe on Friday, using its 34-foot wide mirror to search for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.
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The US and European space agencies signal their desire to co-operate on the biggest missions.
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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.