Square Kilometre Array contest ends in a draw - New Scientist
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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![]() Independent Online | Square Kilometre Array contest ends in a draw New Scientist That's the message South Africa is sending Australia and New Zealand after the African nation tied with the Oceanic duo to host the world's largest radio telescope. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will investigate the early history of the universe, ... Giant SKA in the sky Mining boom hurt radio telescope bid SKA: The Square Kilometre Array finally has a home (or two) |
UW prof builds infrared camera to explore universe - WJTV
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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UW prof builds infrared camera to explore universe WJTV Pierce, who works in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, plans to use his Near-Infrared Imaging Spectrograph to view images in infrared wavelengths captured by a telescope. As the universe expands and distant objects move apart, light they emit ... |
Venus 'Transit of Sun' is next amazing sky sight - Fox News
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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![]() Zee News | Venus 'Transit of Sun' is next amazing sky sight Fox News The "ring of fire" solar eclipse may be history, but skywatchers have another stunning event to look forward to — June's historic Venus transit of the sun. On Sunday, May 20, the moon covered most of the sun's disk but left a ring of light blazing ... The Transit of Venus: June 5-6, 2012 Your big date with Venus All eyes on planet Venus |
NBN to help facilitate the SKA - Computerworld Australia
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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NBN to help facilitate the SKA Computerworld Australia The SKA telescope will generate about 10 times more data than current global internet traffic, according to a SKA scientist. Lisa Harvey-Smith, SKA scientist at CSIRO, said the National Broadband Network (NBN) will help send this data from the ... |
Stellar shots in 'History of Space Photography' show - CNET
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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Stellar shots in 'History of Space Photography' show CNET The show divides the images into several categories -- shots of Earth from space, for example; shots of our solar system and its individual planets and star; shots of deep space -- and the pictures range from the first known photo of a telescope (a ... |
Pushkin Museum: the story of appearance - The Voice of Russia
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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![]() The Voice of Russia | Pushkin Museum: the story of appearance The Voice of Russia The Countess Zinaida Volkonskaya who was a friend of Alexander Pushkin, by the way, published an article in journal Telescope in 1931, in which she wrote that Moscow needed to have a museum of Western and Oriental, but especially of foreign art. |
Columbia Falls graduate sets sights on becoming an astronaut - Daily Inter Lake
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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Columbia Falls graduate sets sights on becoming an astronaut Daily Inter Lake Her parents, Leonard Griffith and Paula Dickinson, encouraged her galactic interests by giving her a telescope as a gift. “I started to get really interested in space and it never went away,” Griffith said. She was amazed to discover she could see the ... |
Biggest-ever telescope to look for ETs - The Independent
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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![]() CTV.ca | Biggest-ever telescope to look for ETs The Independent The SKA, billed as one of the most ambitious international scientific co-operations in history, will be 10000 times faster and 50 times more sensitive than any telescope ever built. After a meeting at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport yesterday, ... How the SA, Australian SKA collaboration will work |
A true democracy of knowledge: speech - Guelph Mercury
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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A true democracy of knowledge: speech Guelph Mercury Over the course of the next 40 years, it's estimated that science will create more knowledge than has been created in all of human history. The mind boggles. New tools are powering our revolutionary advances in knowledge. To the telescope and ... |
Recommended: Queen of SETI retires from research - msnbc.com
Monday 28th of May 2012 06:01:37 PM
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![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Recommended: Queen of SETI retires from research msnbc.com SETI astronomer Jill Tarter looks out from the radio dish named after her at the Allen Telescope Array in northern California. The array's 42 linked dishes search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. By Alan Boyle The real-life astronomer ... After 35 years, SETI celebrates its most-famous alien hunter Searching for Intelligent Aliens: Q&A with SETI Astronomer Jill Tarter After 35 years, Jill Tarter will no longer lead search for ET |






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