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Albiva to Acquire Optical Products Provider Enablence Technologies’ Swiss Subsidiary

Enablence Technologies Inc., a leading supplier of optical components and subsystems for telecommunication access, metro and long-haul markets and enterprise and other applications, provides an update on the sale of its wholly-owned Swiss subsidiary, Enablence Switzerland AG ("ENA Switzerland") first announced in July 2012.

17 Nov 2012

Drexel University Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror

When you look in a mirror, you see an image of yourself in reverse. But one odd mirror invented by mathematics professor Dr. R. Andrew Hicks at Drexel University shows your true face without reversing its image.

17 Nov 2012

Astronomers Identify Most Distant Galaxy Using NASA's Telescopes

By combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new record for finding the most distant galaxy seen in the universe.

17 Nov 2012

Astronomers Find Evidence for Born-Again Event

Astronomers have found evidence for a dying Sun-like star coming briefly back to life after casting its gassy shells out into space, mimicking the possible fate our own Solar System faces in a few billion years.

17 Nov 2012

Optical Data Reveals Oxygen, Hydrogen and X-ray Emissions in Planetary Nebula Abell 30

These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, (a.k.a. A30), show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. The inset image on the right is a close-up view of A30 showing X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data showing optical emission from oxygen ions in orange.

16 Nov 2012

Hubble Space Telescope and A Cosmic Zoom Lens Uncover Farthest Known Galaxy

By combining the power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and one of nature's zoom lenses, astronomers have found what is probably the most distant galaxy yet seen in the Universe. The object offers a peek back into a time when the Universe was only 3 percent of its present age of 13.7 billion years.

16 Nov 2012

Astronomers Discover Free-Floating Homeless Planet

A planet that is not orbiting a star, effectively making it homeless, has been discovered by a team of University of Montreal (UdeM) researchers working with European colleagues and data provided by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT).

16 Nov 2012

DELTA Optical Thin Film Opens New Online Shop with Celebratory 10% Discount

DELTA Optical Thin Film has opened an online shop to give their expanding customer base easy access and purchase possibilities for linear variable filters and advanced optical filters and components.

From Delta Optical Thin Film A/S 15 Nov 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Optical Boomerangs

Bending light around corners is usually done with mirrors, but now scientists have realized self-bending light beams that propagate along curved paths.

15 Nov 2012

EPFL Scientists Control Caustic Light Patterns and Organize Them into Coherent Images

It's a simple, transparent acrylic plate – nothing embedded within it and nothing printed on its surface. Place it at a certain angle between a white wall and a light source, and a clear, coherent image appears of the face of Alan Turing, the famous British mathematician and father of modern computer science.

14 Nov 2012

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