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  • World's Largest 'Thermometer Camera'
    News - 6 Aug 2007
    The world's largest bolometer camera for submillimetre astronomy is now in service at the 12-m APEX telescope, located on the 5100m high Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes. LABOCA was...
  • TeraXion Provides Critical Sub-System for Atacama Large Millimeter Wave Array Telescope
    News - 20 Jul 2007
    TeraXion Inc. , a technology leader in performance-defining OEM products for the generation and conditioning of lightwave signals in mission-critical applications of Defense & Aerospace, Telecom...
  • New Generation of Optical Molecules
    News - 15 Jul 2007
    The internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules developed and tested by a team of researchers from Washington State University, the University of Leuven in...
  • South Pole Telescope at Jupiter Achieves First Light
    News - 15 Jul 2007
    Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under...
  • $2 Million to Improve Sensitivity and Resolution of the Keck Interferometer
    News - 13 Jul 2007
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the W. M. Keck Observatory $2 million to improve the sensitivity and resolution of the Keck Interferometer. The improvements will enable the...
  • New Sodium Laser for Astronomers
    News - 13 Jul 2007
    A new sodium laser is giving 50 times more sky coverage to the atmospheric-correcting technology known as adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The laser lets scientists...
  • Virus-Sized Nanostars
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    New optics research from Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics suggests that tiny gold particles called nanostars could become powerful chemical sensors. The findings are available...
  • Optical Vortex Coronagraph
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent...
  • New Optics Technology for Extremely Large Telescopes
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    On the evening of 25 March 2007, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) achieved First Light at the Visitor Focus of Melipal, the third Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope...
  • Artificial Star
    News - 5 Jul 2007
    On 28 January 2006, at 23:07 local time, a laser beam of several watts was launched from Yepun, the fourth 8.2m Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope, producing an artificial star, 90 km up in...

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