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GREGOR solar telescope
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Title: The GREGOR solar telescope on Tenerife Authors: Wolfgang Schmidt, Oskar von der Lühe, Reiner Volkmer, Carsten Denker, Sami Solanki, Horst Balthasar, Nazaret Bello Gonzalez, Thomas Berkefeld, Manuel Collados, Axel Hofmann, Franz Kneer, Andreas Lagg, Klaus Puschmann, Dirk Schmidt, Mi...
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Kokomo Observatory
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See planets at Observatory open house A rite of passage for many new astronomy enthusiasts is a "Messier Marathon," or staying up all night to view all 110 objects in the Messier Catalogue of Deep Sky Objects. Sunday, October 14, stargazers in north central Indiana will have good views of...
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One Telescope Project
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Why every country in Africa should have a research telescope. One way is the One Telescope Project, to be launched next month. We aim to put one research telescope in every country, starting with African and Southern Hemisphere nations. There are 54 African countries but only three with telescopes...
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Chichen Itza
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Chichen Itza ("at the mouth of the well of the Itza"), was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya civilization. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Read more...
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Ashcroft Observatory
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Planetarium raising funds for new telescope Sitting atop a hill on Westview Drive in Cedar City, Southern Utah University's Ashcroft Observatory has provided close-up views of deep-space objects to Southern Utah residents for more than 30 years. Recently, a broken telescope has obscured some o...
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Cologne observatory
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Das Projekt COLOGNE LARGE TELESCOPE - Ein Grossteleskop als Bürgerteleskop für alle Kölner: Das Observatorium der Volkssternwarte Köln auf dem Schiller-Gymnasium in Köln-Sülz feiert im Jahr 2012 seinen 50. "Geburtstag". In den Schul-Sommerferien wurde die Kuppel aussen und inne...
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Space Fence
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New space radars to track small but deadly space junk Independent tests undertaken in late February by two US aerospace firms - Lockheed Martin and Raytheon - showed that a new ground-based radar technology can detect small bits of orbital debris. Both Lockheed and Raytheon are competing to win a...
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AST3-1 Antarctic Survey Telescope
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China installs largest optical telescope in Antarctica A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical telescope in the snow-capped region, experts said. The AST3-1 Antarctic Survey Telescope was installed by researchers from China's 28th An...
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Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
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Australian ingenuity will save NASA about $800,000 and three months of down time when the 70-metre antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is shut for refurbishment in November. Visitors gazing at the sparkling 4000-tonne dish would never know the paint has failed and is cracke...
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National Large Solar Telescope
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Bangalore to Ladakh, in search of the sun What are the fundamental processes taking place on the sun? How does it work? A team of scientists from Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) hopes to find answers to these queries as they embark on a project to study the sun. Aiding them will...
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Punkri Burwadih
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The restoration of the fallen menhir of Punkri Burwadih Subhashis Das is well known for his work recording and publicising the rich megalithic heritage of Indian. In this feature he describes how, with the help of local officials, friends and villagers, the fallen megalith of Punkri Burwadih was r...
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Stortford henge
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Archaeologists uncover remains of Stortford "henge" A Henge - or Prehistoric monument - may have been unearthed on the outskirts of Bishop's Stortford. Archaeologists investigating sites earmarked for thousands of new homes on the town's ASRs - areas of special restraint - believe t...
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Chinese Giant Solar Telescope
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Shining light on the sun Within the next decade, China will observe the sun with the world's largest solar telescope and set up its first overseas observatory in Antarctica. Since 2010, the team for the Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST), one of the next-generation ground-based solar telescope...
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Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument
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Penn State Awarded $3.3 Million to Build Instrument for Finding Planets in Habitable Zones Around Nearby Stars A new state-of-the-art instrument -- a precision spectrograph for finding planets in habitable zones around cool, nearby stars -- is being developed at Penn State with support from a ne...
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Avon Park High science class telescope
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A long-time local science instructor and astronomist is on a mission to bring the stars and galaxies a lot closer to his students and the community. Avon Park High School science instructor Chris Stephan is an avid stargazer and is putting together a plan to purchase a unique and essential instrume...
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