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By utilizing one of the most advanced interferometry instruments in the world, named AMBER, a team of astronomers was recently able to observe the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole.
What this means is that they were able to see the dark behemoth as it was gorging itself on matter accumulated in its... |
17 May 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Astronomers in Australia and South Korea recently managed to link five individual radio telescopes, producing a single, massive observatory, some 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across.
The tool works through interferometry, a process that enables multiple telescopes to be networked together. When properly adjusted, ... |
3 April 2012
09:28 GMT |
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This Saturday, on March 31, officials gathered in New Mexico, the United States, and witnessed the renaming ceremony for the iconic Very Large Array (VLA), the largest radio observatory in the world. The installation has now been named after the founder of radio astronomy, and is known officially as the Karl G. Jans... |
2 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) say that they want to create a new type of telescope technology, one that would enable them to complete Phoenix. The latter is a project that seeks to reclaim and reuse old satellite parts for creating new spacecraft.
These new vehicles would b... |
21 January 2012
05:27 GMT |
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European researchers recently participated in the Fringe Workshop, a meeting organized at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Center of Earth observation (ESRIN), in Frascati, Italy. At the conference, they shows that satellites can detect subsidence of just a few millimeters.
Subsidence is a term used in geolo... |
13 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Officials at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) report that the massive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope has finally opened its eyes, and that it is now ready to support scientific investigations.
The instrument is located on the Chajnantor plateau in northern Chile, and cu... |
3 October 2011
06:34 GMT |
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A group of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) release a brand-new image of stellar nurseries located around NGC 371, a star cluster contained within a neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud.For this task, expert turned to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) ESO operated at the La Silla Observ... |
30 March 2011
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The upcoming LISA mission that will be launched this decade finally got one of its most important components, the laser control system that will connect the three satellites in the program over millions of kilometers of space. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a project that will see the launch of thre... |
7 March 2011
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Astronomers operating the new Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) are pleased to announce that the observatory has conducted its first astronomical observations, targeting the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor as its first observations target.After some 8 years of development, the tool is now read... |
7 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Expert Michael Shao, currently based at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, is one of the leading experts in the field of stellar interferometry. This is an imaging technique that allows astronomers to peer deep into the heart of the Universe, observing numerous exoplanets, and other bo... |
24 July 2010
06:04 GMT |
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A new collaboration between astronomical institutions in New Zealand and Australia sees the creation of one of the largest interferometry-based radio telescopes in the world. No less than six facilities across the two countries signed a cooperation agreement, which essentially links these individual stations into a s... |
27 May 2010
10:08 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking series of experiments, scientists in the United States managed to develop a new method of analyzing how graphene sheets are stacked on top of each other. Scientists with the collaboration say that the technique is also suitable for determining which areas of the compound are subjected to most stra... |
29 April 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Dark energy is a hypothesized force in the Universe that is believed to be largely responsible for the ever-accelerating speed at which the Cosmos expands. This was inferred from the fact that galaxies appeared to be moving away from each other, which is consistent with a scenario in which the entire cosmic bubble is... |
26 January 2010
10:51 GMT |
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Astronomers announce the discovery of a new exoplanet, which appears to be one of the smallest such celestial objects ever identified. According to experts, it is only four times larger than the Earth, which makes it the second smallest exoplanet in the known Universe. For the new discovery, a research group used the... |
8 January 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Engineers and scientists working at the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA), in Chile, announce that they have finally managed to link three antennas together. Two of the structures were already linked last year, but now another one was added, and the entire ensemble functions as an interferometer. W... |
4 January 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Since modern Science and astronomy took off, in the last few hundred years, experts have made numerous discoveries pertaining to the nature of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon. One of these discoveries was the fact that the Sun was a yellow dwarf that had been generated some 4.57 billion years ago. As such, in about f... |
16 December 2009
05:45 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA), the operator of the newly-launched Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), has announced today that the instrument has successfully deployed its three-antenna arms, which was the most delicate process in the commissioning phase. The Living Planet Program components are curr... |
4 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The Keck Telescopes are today widely regarded as being among the top observatories in the world, due to their ability to probe deeply within the sky, with great accuracy and detail. Recently, astronomers wielding the twin ten-meter telescopes have analyzed the most compact dust disks ever found around another star, u... |
25 September 2009
01:26 GMT |
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China is one of the countries located in areas of intense seismic activity, a fact that over the millennia has made itself felt on numerous occasions. Accounts of devastating earthquakes can be found throughout the nation's history; thus, experts in the country have formed a mixed Chinese-European research group... |
6 July 2009
04:08 GMT |
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Engineers dealing with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), currently under construction in the Chilean Andes and the result of an international cooperative effort, announced another milestone in the project, namely the construction and connection of two of the future telescope's antennas... |
7 May 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Peering deep inside the Orion nebula, the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Chile facility has discovered that the long-known Theta 1 Orionis C pair of stars is, in fact, a binary system. Its two members are locked in the same orbit around each other, and thi... |
3 April 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Soon, the first set of “ears” for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope, which is currently under construction in Chile, will be shipped out from England. The UK is in charge of delivering the first receivers for the international project, which will create a telescope that totals the observ... |
25 March 2009
06:02 GMT |
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A French-Italian collaboration has yielded one of the most important astronomical tools in the recent years, namely a method of detecting and thoroughly measuring asteroids as small as 15 kilometers in diameter, via the use of a technique called interferometry. It can only be applied in the case of the European South... |
4 February 2009
11:04 GMT |
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Two different drums should in fact produce two different sound spectrums, which pretty much means that if one were to identify one of the two, then he/she could do it just by listening for the unique sound it gives off. It may not seem like a very important property for most of us, but the truth is that we rely on to... |
11 February 2008
08:44 GMT |
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The new precision tool with a variety of applications will serve to test Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and it's called atom interferometry. Interferometry is the science and technique of superposing (interfering) two or more waves, which creates an output wave different from the input waves, which in tu... |
17 April 2007
06:59 GMT |
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