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Astronomer Reveals Data from Hubble's Hidden Treasures

Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colours, visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

18 Jan 2013

Researchers to Develop New Type of Particle Accelerator Using Laser Wakefield Acceleration

Professors Jean-Claude Kieffer, François Légaré, and Patrizio Antici of the INRS Energy Materials Telecommunications Research Centre will play a leading role in developing a new type of particle accelerator using laser wakefield acceleration. More affordable and effective than existing types, the accelerator will be able to produce a new generation of compact light sources for life science and medical applications.

18 Jan 2013

Cassini Radar Reveals Two Craters on Titan

Titan's siblings must be jealous. While most of Saturn's moons display their ancient faces pockmarked by thousands of craters, Titan – Saturn's largest moon – may look much younger than it really is because its craters are getting erased. Dunes of exotic, hydrocarbon sand are slowly but steadily filling in its craters, according to new research using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

18 Jan 2013

Agilent’s High-Speed Digital Design and Test Solutions to be Showcased at DesignCon

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it will demonstrate its high-speed digital design and test solutions at DesignCon, Jan. 28- 31, at the Santa Clara Convention Center (Booth 201).

From Agilent Technologies, Inc. 17 Jan 2013

Photron Releases Fastcam Viewer Camera Plug-In for National Instruments Data Acquisition Module

Photron, Inc., a global leader and manufacturer of high speed cameras and image analysis software, announces the availability of a new, optional Photron Fastcam Viewer (PFV) plug-in that provides synchronization of Photron’s high speed cameras with the NI USB-6251 BNC data acquisition module from National Instruments™.

From Photron USA, Inc. 16 Jan 2013

Teledyne DALSA to Display Latest Cameras and Machine Vision Solutions at Automate 2013

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, will showcase its latest cameras and machine vision solutions at Automate 2013 in Chicago, Illinois January 21-24, 2013. Automate is the largest solutions-based exhibition of automation technologies in North America and showcases the full spectrum of automation technologies and solutions for a broad array of industries.

From Teledyne DALSA 16 Jan 2013

Veeco Molecular Beam Epitaxy System Selected for KOPTI’s Laser-IT Research Center

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that the Korean Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI) has purchased a GEN20™ Molecular Beam Epitaxy system. The system will be shipped to KOPTI’s Laser-IT Research Center and Photonics System Lab in Gwangju, S. Korea for high-powered GaAs-based laser diode research.

16 Jan 2013

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

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