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Canada's Commitment to Construction Funding for Thirty Meter Telescope Receives Praises from Empire Industries

Empire Industries Ltd. welcomes Canada's commitment to construction funding of $243.5 million for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) international partnership, announced yesterday evening by Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver.

8 Apr 2015

NASA and STScI Announce this Year's Group of Hubble Fellows

NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have announced the selection of 17 new Hubble Fellows. STScI in Baltimore, Maryland, administers the Hubble Fellowship Program for NASA.

7 Apr 2015

UK Bid to Host Square Kilometre Array Telescope HQ Receives Backing from RAS and IOP

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the Institute of Physics (IOP) have responded to the decision of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation to extend its selection process to decide on where to site the permanent headquarters of the array.

25 Mar 2015

Deepest Total Eclipse of the Sun in the UK

On 20 March a total eclipse of the Sun will take place, visible from the North Atlantic Ocean. Observers in the UK and Ireland will see a partial solar eclipse, with up to 97% of the Sun blocked out. This will be the deepest eclipse in the UK since 1999 and until 2026.

13 Mar 2015

SLAC Hosts Two Workshops to Prepare for Massive Data from Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope begins in 2022 to image the entire southern sky from a mountaintop in Chile, it will produce the widest, deepest and fastest views of the night sky ever observed – and a flood of 6 million gigabytes of data per year that are expected to provide new insights into dark matter, dark energy and other cosmic mysteries.

10 Mar 2015

Hubble Takes Most Detailed Picture of Large, Gas-And-Dust Disk Encircling Beta Pictoris Star

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris.

20 Feb 2015

New Telescopic Contact Lens Holds Promise for Better, Stronger Vision

An estimated 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide. Age-related macular degeneration alone is the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the Western world. But this week at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, Eric Tremblay from EPFL in Switzerland unveils a new prototype of his telescopic contact lens--the first of its kind--giving hope for better, stronger vision. The optics specialist also debuts complementary smart glasses that recognize winks and ignore blinks, allowing wearers of the contact lenses to switch between normal and magnified vision.

16 Feb 2015

The World’s Biggest Solar Telescope to be built by University of Sheffield Researchers

Researchers from the University of Sheffield are currently helping to build the world’s biggest and most revolutionary solar telescope, The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST).

11 Feb 2015

Northumbria Experts Participate in Project to Build Revolutionary DKIST Solar Telescope

Experts from Northumbria University, Newcastle, are taking part in an international project to build the world’s biggest and most revolutionary solar telescope.

10 Feb 2015

New Half-Wave Spectropolarimeter Helps Obtain Multiple Observations of Polarized Standard Stars

How do astronomers determine the shapes of objects that are too far away to photograph? One method is by using spectropolarimetry, an observational technique that measures the way light waves align after they scatter through clouds of gas and dust in space.

9 Feb 2015

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