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UK’s Defunding of Hawaii Telescopes Decried

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HARWELL OXFORD, England, June 1, 2012 — Thursday was "a sad day for British astronomy," according to the president of the Royal Astronomical Society. That was the day the UK's Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) announced it would close — or transfer to other organizations — the Hawaii-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the UK Infra-Red Telescope. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is the largest astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the submillimeter wavelength of the spectrum. The UK's Science and Technologies Facilities Council says it...Read full article

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    Published: June 2012
    Glossary
    astronomy
    The scientific observation of celestial radiation that has reached the vicinity of Earth, and the interpretation of these observations to determine the characteristics of the extraterrestrial bodies and phenomena that have emitted the radiation.
    telescope
    An afocal optical device made up of lenses or mirrors, usually with a magnification greater than unity, that renders distant objects more distinct, by enlarging their images on the retina.
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