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Guild Optical Associates Develop More Durable Metallized Sapphire Window

Guild Optics finds a way for metallized endoscopic optics to better withstand today’s harsh sterilization techniques.

From Guild Optical Associates, Inc. 14 Jan 2013

Near-Real-Time Solar Animation to be Displayed at Chabot Space + Science Center

"Touch the Sun," a new interactive exhibition utilizing stunning near-real-time images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, will open at Chabot Space & Science Center on January 18th launching a four-day weekend full of solar astronomy related activities.

10 Jan 2013

Kepler Reveals Earth-Size Planets within the Orbit of Mercury

An analysis of the first three years of data from NASA's Kepler mission, which already has discovered thousands of potential exoplanets, contains good news for those searching for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

10 Jan 2013

Advanced Adaptive Optics System Will Help Study the Universe with Unprecedented Clarity

A new image released today reveals how Gemini Observatory's most advanced adaptive optics (AO) system will help astronomers study the universe with an unprecedented level of clarity and detail by removing distortions due to the Earth's atmosphere. The photo, featuring an area on the outskirts of the famous Orion Nebula, illustrates the instrument's significant advancements over previous-generation AO systems.

10 Jan 2013

Polaroid Introduces New High-Performance Digital Still and Video Cameras

Polaroid today unveiled three new additions to its growing line of high-performance digital still and video cameras to make it fun, easy and affordable for everyone to capture professional-quality images and high-definition video of life's most precious memories.

9 Jan 2013

Ball Aerospace’s Wide Field Camera 3 Onboard Hubble Helps Discover Ancient Galaxy

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) delivered unprecedented science in 2012 including the discovery of the oldest galaxy to date.

9 Jan 2013

SOFIA Captures Images of Luminous Young Stars Embedded in Dust Cocoons

Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and of a neighboring cluster of extremely luminous young stars embedded in dust cocoons.

9 Jan 2013

Large Asteroid Belt Discovered Around the Star Vega

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists used data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, in which NASA plays an important role.

9 Jan 2013

CEVA, iOnRoad Partner to Offer Camera-Enabled Driving Assistance Devices

CEVA, Inc., the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today announced it is partnering with iOnRoad, an award-winning technology provider for personal driving assistance. The two companies have integrated and optimized the iOnRoad software for use with the CEVA-MM3101 imaging and vision platform for camera-enabled devices. The companies will demonstrate the technology at CES 2013 in Las Vegas from January 8-11th, 2013.

7 Jan 2013

NASA's Dawn Space Probe Camera Reveals Enormous Craters in Protoplanet Vesta’s

The protoplanet Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images were obtained during Dawn's year-long visit to Vesta that ended in September 2012. These huge impacts not only altered Vesta's shape, but also its surface composition.

4 Jan 2013