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ESO Approves 'Extremely Large Telescope' Study
GARCHING, Germany, Dec. 12, 2006 -- The ESO Council, the governing body of the Garching-based European Southern Observatory (ESO), has authorized detailed studies for the European Extremely Large Telescope. The 57 million euro (approximately $75.4 million) studies will make it...
Observatory Downsizing, Telescope Closings Proposed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2006 -- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Astronomy Senior Review Committee report, released today, recommends downsizing the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, making significant changes within the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and...
UCSC Professor to Head UC Observatories/Lick Observatory
Nov 1, 2006 — The University of California (UC) has appointed Michael Bolte, PhD, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), as director of the UC Observatories/Lick Observatory, effective July 1. Bolte has served...
Quake Damages Hawaii Telescopes
WAIMEA, Hawaii, Oct. 20, 2006 -- While their telescopes' huge mirrors escaped unharmed, scientists at the 13 powerful and technologically advanced telescopes circling the dormant Mauna Kea volcano have reported damage to other equipment vital to the instruments in the days...
Keck Observatory Receives Minimal Damage from Earthquake
Oct 18, 2006 — The W. M. Keck Observatory in Kamuela, Hawaii, is recovering from a 6.6-magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks that struck off the west coast of Hawaii Sunday morning. The earthquake was the largest to hit Hawaii in 20 years and caused...
Optikos Gets $3.4M for Optical Focus Verification System
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 14, 2006 -- Optikos Corp., a maker of optical image quality metrology equipment, announced that it has been awarded a $3.4 million contract from ITT Systems Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo., to produce an optical focus verification system (OFVS) for...
Lowell Observatory, UArizona to Complete DCT Mirror
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Aug. 11, 2006 -- Lowell Observatory and the University of Arizona have finalized a $3 million, three-year contract to complete the Discovery Channel Telescope primary mirror. The 4.3-meter-diameter (14 ft), approximately 6700-pound mirror is the center of Lowell...
Promising Polymers to be Tested as Space Mirrors
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 9, 2006 -- For the past three years, a research team has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultralight mirrors in space telescopes. In 2007, the research will go one step further when their...
Space Pioneer, Physicist James Van Allen Dies at 91
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 9, 2006 -- Physicist James A. Van Allen, a US space pioneer who discovered the bands of intense radiation surrounding the Earth that now bear his name, died this morning at the age of 91. A statement about Van Allen's death was released today by the...
Adaptive Optics Affords Better View of Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., July 17, 2006 -- Most astronomers would probably say that a good telescope and good weather are necessary to capture a high-quality image of an object in space. But a scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate would say true...
New Telescope's Mission: Find Aliens
HARVARD, Mass., April 12, 2006 -- A new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard yesterday pointed its giant mirror at the sky for the first time, officially starting its sole mission: to search for signs of alien life in the universe. The new optical SETI at...
Barr Filters Used in Pan-STARRS
Mar 15, 2006 — WESTFORD, Mass., March 15, 2006 -- Barr Associates Inc., a maker of precision thin-film coatings and optical filters, was selected to provide large-area filters for the Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) prototype...
Astronomers Find Huge 'Superbubble' of Gas Blowing out of Milky Way
Jan 19, 2006 — GREEN BANK, W.V., Jan. 19, 2006 -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) recently made three discoveries: a huge "superbubble" of hydrogen gas in the Milky Way, the fastest-spinning pulsar ever...
Boeing LTS Wins $413M Contract to Operate DoD's Largest Telescopes
Dec 29, 2005 — KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Dec. 29, 2005 -- Boeing LTS has been awarded an Air Force Research Laboratory contract with a potential value of $413 million to maintain and operate the two largest telescopes in the Department of Defense. The...
Africa's 'Giant Eye on the Sky' Inaugurated
Nov 11, 2005 — CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov. 11 -- The Southern Hemisphere's largest single optical telescope -- powerful enough to detect objects as faint as a candle flame on the moon -- was officially inaugurated in a ceremony yesterday attended by...
Hubble Reveals Pluto has 3 Moons, Searches for Oxygen on Earth's Moon
Nov 2, 2005 — WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons could offer insights into the...
NASA Telescope Uncovers Role of Brown Dwarfs in Forming Planets
Oct 24, 2005 — PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 24 -- A NASA telescope has detected for the first time the building blocks of planets around brown dwarfs, suggesting that these much colder and dimmer cousins to stars probably also "sow the seeds" of planets. Until now, the...
New Optical Polishing Machine Will Help Scientists Build Better Telescopes
Sep 26, 2005 — DENBIGHSHIRE, North Wales, Sept. 26 -- A £1million ($1.77 million) state-of-the-art optical polishing machine that will help scientists build the next generation of telescopes capable of seeing further into space than ever before has been installed...
New South Pole Telescope Seeks Neutrinos in Ice
Apr 1, 2005 — A telescope under construction at the South Pole will be employed to study the high-energy subatomic particles known as neutrinos. IceCube, as the telescope is called, will consist of up to 4800 basketball-size instruments spread throughout 1 km3 of...
ORA to Develop Optical Design Software
Dec 1, 2004 — Optical Research Associates (ORA) of Pasadena, Calif., has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from NASA to fabricate optical modeling and design tools to analyze and support beam propagation results at a contrast level of 1...
Optics Design Facility Opens in Hawaii
Jul 1, 2004 — Oceanit of Honolulu has opened a business unit, the Maui Optical Systems and Imaging Center (Mosaic), in Kihei, Hawaii, to serve the state's emerging optics and laser industry as well as clients nationwide. Located in the Maui Research and...
Far-Infrared Telescope to be Built in Chile
Mar 10, 2004 — ITHACA, N.Y., March 10 -- Cornell University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have signed an agreement to collaborate on the planning for a 25-meter infrared telescope high in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The...
Ultraviolet Telescope to Observe Galaxies
May 1, 2003 — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 1 -- NASA launched its sky-mapping satellite, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, on Monday on a mission to map the ultraviolet universe. The Galaxy spacecraft is equipped with a telescope that records in the near- and...
NASA Infrared Telescope Launch Postponed
Apr 15, 2003 — WASHINGTON, April 15 -- NASA has postponed the launch of its new infrared space telescope, The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), until April 27. It was originally scheduled to be launched Friday. According to the SIRTF Web site managed by...
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