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  • Budget Cut for the World's Largest Radio Telescope
    News - 24 Sep 2007
    More than 70 astronomers gathered on Capitol Hill this week, not to talk about the demise of a major national research facility, but to plan for its scientific future. With optimism, the group was...
  • Optical and Radio Astronomy from Moon's Surface using a Prototype Lunar Lander Vehicle
    News - 24 Sep 2007
    Space systems company Spacedev has been awarded a contract to develop a prototype lunar lander vehicle for the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA). The ILOA is a private spacecraft...
  • Mirrors have Special Powers in the Hands of an Astronomer
    News - 19 Sep 2007
    Mirrors have special powers in the real world too, especially in the hands of an astronomer. In fact, modern astronomy depends on mirrors. Almost every telescope uses a mirror, sometimes several...
  • Photonic Laser Thruster
    News - 19 Sep 2007
    Since Einstein, scientists have dreamed of Laser light powered rockets streaking through space at speeds approaching the speed of light. This vision came a step closer to reality on December 21, 2006,...
  • Universe's Earliest Stars May Hold Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter
    News - 19 Sep 2007
    The universe's earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the universe's matter but doesn't interact with light, cosmologists...
  • Saturn's moon reveals the Yin-Yang of the Solar System
    News - 14 Sep 2007
    Cassini scientists are poring through hundreds of images returned from the 10 September fly-by of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. The pictures show the moon's yin and yang - a white...
  • Construction of the Universe - Lego-like "building block" galaxies
    News - 14 Sep 2007
    The conventional model for galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies in the early Universe evolved into the massive galaxies of today by coalescing. Nine Lego-like “building block”...
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    The mission of The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Inc. is to sponsor and sustain educational and charitable activities for the advancement and benefit of...
  • Iridian Spectral Technologies
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    Founded in 1998 and located in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, Iridian is a world leader in optical filter solutions for a wide range of applications. Iridian’s highly advanced, proprietary...
  • Designing Next Generation Space Telescopes
    News - 16 Feb 2008
    Two astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Marc Postman and Dr. Ken Sembach, have been selected among 19 science teams to conduct year-long studies of new...

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