Astronomy: Seeing the Heavens in Hi-Def
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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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IIT professor Jeff Terry wanted to open up the universe to his students. So he created iCCD, a Mac-based custom application that allows them to capture celestial objects in all their glory.
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By Christopher Hirst  With heaven on display at King's Cross and the heavens in Greenwich, London is pretty well stocked with the celestial at present. Let's start our extraterrestrial explorations on the Euston Road, not a milieu customarily thought of as Elysian.
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A glut of mainstream digital cameras has manufacturers zooming in on specialties from astronomy to birding and stereo photography.
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University of New South Wales -- A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides the best star-viewing site on Earth, according to research published today in Nature.     Australian researchers have shown than a ground-based telescope in Antarctica can take images almost as good as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, at a fraction of the cost...
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Outdoing Hubble, from the ground Astronomers working at the Palomar observatory have taken some of the clearest ever pictures of space. A US and UK team of stargazers have taken advantage of new adaptive optics technology to out-do even the Hubble Space Telescope for sharpness.â¦
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It may not be exactly possible for high-definition discs to pick up where their lofty goals of 2005 left off. Transmission technology has evolved very rapidly during that time, partly due to the format war's very existence.
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Hubble Space Telescope -- Hubble Space Telescope -- Detailed analyses of mankind's deepest optical view of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), by several expert teams have at last identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.     Astronomers are now debating whether the hottest stars in these early galaxies may have provided enough radiation to "lift a curtain" of cold, primordial hydrogen that cooled after the big bang...
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The HiRISE camera is the most powerful telescope to have left Earth orbit. As such, it is capable of some interesting astronomical observations.This image of Jupiter and its major satellites (10 MB) was acquired to calibrate the pointing and color response of the camera.
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A telescope with a 4-inch diameter -- about the size that some backyard astronomers might use -- tracked the periodic dimming of light from a bright star 500 light-years away.
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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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Scientists hope to build a giant âpinhole cameraâ in space to spot planets orbiting distant stars. The New Worlds Imager would be the size of a football field with a 30ft wide hole in the centre.
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Japanese engineers show their work on Super Hi-Vision, which could replace today's HDTV.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has produced a vivid portrait of the early days of the universe, when baby galaxies were forming and stars were just beginning to shine.
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Consumers are racing to replace their aging televisions with high-definition TVs. Trouble is, many are still using devices and services that can't fill those HDTVs with enough visual information to make them look their best.
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Those who are involved in popularizing astronomy are asked certain questions time and again.&nbsp; One of these is 'How many stars are there?' Only when one is blessed with a rare glimpse of a star-spangled sky with its myriad luminaries, can we understand why this question occurs.&nbsp; Special computer analysis can readily answer the question.&nbsp;
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The latest image from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope highlights a stellar blast that was first discovered by an amateur astronomer a little more than a month ago.