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The Polar Research Institute of China has completed the installation of the robotic observatory PLATeau only after two weeks from their arrival at the Dome Argus location on the Antarctic continent, the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau. PLATO has been built by the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and i... |
4 February 2008
09:23 GMT |
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A new instrument went online at the ESO Telescope at the La Silla Observatory and was able to take images simultaneously in seven colors, to examine the most energetic phenomena in the universe, the gamma-ray bursts.From time to time, a huge explosion followed by a bright flash of light can be observed in space. It&... |
10 July 2007
05:34 GMT |
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NASA finally seems interested in a scientific proposition that was mainly laughed at in the past: a radio observatory on the Moon. The idea is not new, earlier this year an American astronomer proposing that we build a giant liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon, saying that it will be hundreds of times more accurate ... |
11 June 2007
06:06 GMT |
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A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of up to several billion stars, a small number compared to our own Milky Way's 200-400 billion stars. These small galaxies frequently orbit around larger galaxies, such as the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy.NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ... |
29 May 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Pollution takes its toll on historical monuments, more than ever. Natural causes affect all manmade constructions, like the Statue of Liberty that turned green through the galvanic corrosion of copper and the pyramids lost much of the outer layer because of weather conditions over the millennia.Artificial causes aff... |
23 May 2007
11:01 GMT |
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The Gemini Observatory in Hawaii released the newest and most detailed images of supersonic "bullets" of gas piercing through dense clouds of hydrogen gas in the Orion Nebula.The latest image of the Orion bullets was created with a new technology, called adaptive optics, which uses a laser guide star as a reference ... |
26 March 2007
09:46 GMT |
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