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Stories about: Pan-STARRS

Earth Will Get Comet Visitor in 2013 A telescope instrument designed to search Earth's surroundings for dangerous asteroids and other near-Earth objects (NEO) discovered a new comet earlier this month. The space object will carry out a flyby around our planet in 2013. Based on data available at this point, astronomers estimate that it will take two... 17 June 2011 11:05 GMT Pan-STARRS Has a 1.4 Gigapixel Resolution Technology is steadily evolving, devices and gadgets become increasingly smaller and optical resolution gets ever larger. Regular photo cameras now boast impressive 5 megapixel resolution and fantastic zoom-in abilities. Well, impressive until some while ago, that is. Still, in this accelerating age of minimizing si... 1 December 2008 10:01 GMT Microsoft Applauds 1.1 Petabytes SQL Server 2008 Database Officially launched in February 2008, but released to manufacturing in early August, SQL Server 2008 is already at the top of the data warehousing and transaction processing game worldwide. The Redmond company applauded the fact that its data management and business intelligence platform could support applications ca... 7 November 2008 04:43 GMT