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  1. Astronomy /optics combination produces single-photon detector

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    Thu, 1 Nov 2001

    DETECTORS A project that combined astronomy technology from Moscow State Pedagogical University (Moscow ..... professor Grigory Gol'tsman, using superconductors for radio astronomy ," explains Roman Sobolewski, professor of electrical and …

  2. ASTRONOMY : New petal designs improve planet-finding occulters

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    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    … Exoplanets and Intergalactic/Galactic Astronomy (THEIA) occulter design, which is ..... The great technical challenge for astronomy for the coming years will be to directly ..... exoplanets and interstellar/intergalactic astronomy ," http://www.astro.princeton …

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  1. ASTRONOMY : New petal designs improve planet-finding occulters

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    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    … Exoplanets and Intergalactic/Galactic Astronomy (THEIA) occulter design, which is ..... The great technical challenge for astronomy for the coming years will be to directly ..... exoplanets and interstellar/intergalactic astronomy ," http://www.astro.princeton …

  2. Ultrafast laser inscription promising for astronomy advances

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    Mon, 9 Feb 2009

    … by future telescopes . A paper published in the current issue of Optics Express demonstrates how "astrophotonics" (where astronomy and photonics meet, according to OSA, the Optical Society) could be of particular benefit to the next generation of ground …

  3. ASTRONOMY : Rocky Planet Finder Telescope to search for exoplanets

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    Sat, 1 Apr 2006

    … Hamilton, CA) is expected to begin searching for extrasolar planets this fall, according to Steve Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and an astronomer at UCO/Lick, which is run by UCSC …

  5. ASTRONOMY

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    Fri, 1 Jan 1999

    ASTRONOMY Neil Savage Spectrograph seeks out new worldsAstronomers have found two ..... powerful of its type in the world," said Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an …

  6. Astronomy CCD camera

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    Sat, 1 Mar 1997

    Astronomy CCD camera A CCD imaging system designed for professional astronomers, the Aurora incorporates a back-illuminated antireflection …

  7. INFRARED ASTRONOMY : World's largest monolithic grating prepares to take flight

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    Mon, 1 May 2000

    … a coating engineer at Hyperfine. Edwin Erickson, a NASA project scientist for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and the principal investigator for the SOFIA Airborne Infra-Red Echelle Spectrometer, in which the Hyperfine …

  8. OPTICS FOR ASTRONOMY

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    Mon, 1 Jan 1996

    … the REOSC facility in March 1996. In addition to the VLT mirrors, REOSC will also be polishing two 8.2-m-diameter mirrors for the GEMINI program of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in the USA.

  9. Europe unveils 20-year plan for future in astronomy

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    Wed, 26 Nov 2008

    … adaptive optics and other innovations, astronomy has entered a golden age--and, thanks ..... its roadmap for the future of European astronomy . The European Southern Observatory ..... energy to life on other planets. European astronomy now presents its Infrastructure Roadmap …

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