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World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Opens Eye, Records First Images In Hunt For Dark Energy

World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Opens Eye, Records First Images In Hunt For Dark Energy | Science News | Scoop.it
From news.science360.gov - December 24, 2012 8:36 AM

Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it for the first time. That light may hold within it the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics – why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Scientists in the international Dark Energy Survey collaboration have announced that the Dark Energy Camera, the product of eight years of planning and construction by scientists, engineers and technicians on three continents, has achieved first light. The first pictures of the southern sky were taken by the 570-megapixel camera on Sept. 12, 2012.

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ScienceCasts: Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

From www.youtube.com - March 16, 2012 1:17 PM

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common: Astronomers have no idea what they are.

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Telescope to be built in depths of Mediterranean sea - Telegraph

Telescope to be built in depths of Mediterranean sea - Telegraph | Science News | Scoop.it
From www.telegraph.co.uk - January 22, 2012 7:18 PM
A giant 'telescope' more than half a mile in length is to be built two miles
beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea in a bid to reveal new secrets
about the universe.
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'Dream' Space Telescope for Military Could Spy Anywhere on Earth

'Dream' Space Telescope for Military Could Spy Anywhere on Earth | Science News | Scoop.it
From news.yahoo.com - December 14, 2011 5:03 PM
If the U.S. military wants live video of a missile launcher vehicle halfway around the world, it must rely upon spy planes or drones in danger of being shot down.
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Powerful NIST detectors on Hawaiian telescope to probe origins of stars, planets and galaxies

Powerful NIST detectors on Hawaiian telescope to probe origins of stars, planets and galaxies | Science News | Scoop.it
From www.physorg.com - December 6, 2011 4:35 PM
The world’s largest submillimeter camera—based on superconducting technology designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—is now ready to scan the universe, including faint and faraway parts never seen before.
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[VIDEO] Baby Photos of the Universe

[VIDEO] Baby Photos of the Universe | Science News | Scoop.it
From worldsciencefestival.com - June 8, 2012 2:31 PM

To photograph the very infancy of the Universe—back when it was mere seconds years old—you need an extremely complex camera. In an operation that seems not unlike the building of a backyard tree fort, the EBEX team at Columbia University, led by physicist Amber Miller, has spent seven years building a complex balloon-borne telescope. When it takes flight later this year, over the icy dunes of Antarctica, the hope is that scientists will be able to glimpse a little further into the past than ever before.

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Science Bulletins: SOFIA—Stars and the Space Between

From vimeo.com - March 12, 2012 7:20 PM
By sending an infrared telescope to altitudes of 12,000 meters (40,000 feet) and higher, NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) conduct astronomical research that would be impossible using telescopes based on Earth.
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NASA funds balloon-borne X-ray telescope

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From www.astronomynow.com - January 11, 2012 4:58 AM

A new X-ray telescope developed by an international team of scientists will float within the Earth’s atmosphere on a one-day mission to calculate how fast black holes spin.

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Telescope Timelapse (La Palma)

From www.youtube.com - December 12, 2011 8:20 AM

Overlooking the Isaac Newton Telescope atop a volcano on the island of La Palma. Just a little taste of the pre-filming we're doing for Deep Sky Videos. Video journalist Brady Haran is blogging daily from the site. See it at http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-palma-diary-day-four.html

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What Do You See When SETI’s Allen Telescope Array Is Aimed At The Sun? | Astroengine.com

What Do You See When SETI’s Allen Telescope Array Is Aimed At The Sun? | Astroengine.com | Science News | Scoop.it
From www.astroengine.com - November 25, 2011 2:10 AM
And no, aliens isn't the answer.The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), located near Hat Creek, California, isn't only used by the SETI Institute to seek out...
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