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  1. ESO's telescope interferometer images two stars orbiting each other

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    Wed, 7 Dec 2011

    Imaged by ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), the SS ..... Observatory 's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope Interferometer ( VLTI ) have captured ..... telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope on 17 March 2011, can attain a

  2. James Webb Space Telescope completes cryotest of all flight mirrors, and passes

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    Wed, 21 Dec 2011

    will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—built by Northrop Grumman ..... This milestone concludes testing on the telescope 's individual mirror segments and represents ..... company can build a large, deployable telescope for space with 18 beryllium mirrors that

  1. NASA's Fermi Space Telescope explores gamma-ray extremes

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    Wed, 11 Jan 2012

    than three years in space, NASA 's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely ..... of energy sources in this new realm. Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) scans the entire sky every three hours, continually

  2. Solar telescope mirror to be shaped by the University of Arizona

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    Mon, 27 Jun 2011

    Germany for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST), which will become the world's largest solar telescope when it becomes operational in Hawaii ..... large size and precision of the solar telescope 's glass mirror --the primary focusing

  3. NASA licensing wavefront sensing technology from the Webb Telescope

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    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    With construction of the James Webb Space Telescope underway, the Innovative Partnerships ..... you See it Now?" campaign . The Webb telescope , which will be the most scientifically powerful telescope NASA has ever built--100 times more

  4. Telops wins contract to upgrade imaging quality for Mont-Mégantic telescope

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    Fri, 17 Jun 2011

    quality of the Mont-Mégantic Observatory telescope near Sherbrooke, QC. In collaboration ..... significantly increase the imaging quality of the telescope in experiments requiring prolonged exposure ..... in real-time the misalignment of the telescope by compensating for imaging deformation

  5. World's largest clear aperture solar telescope turns on, providing hi-res views

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    Thu, 21 May 2009

    1.6-meter clear aperture solar telescope --the largest of its kind in the world ..... the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope , used to demonstrate that sunspots are ..... by federal funding. "The new solar telescope will be the premier ground-based instrument

  6. Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility to close After 26 successful years

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    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    Garching, Germany--The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST ..... coordination center for the Hubble Space Telescope in Europe, will close its doors at the ..... invaluable expertise for our Very Large Telescope ," says ESO director general Tim de

  7. Six James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments complete final cryogenic test

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    Tue, 21 Jun 2011

    form the 6.5 m primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) completed their final cryogenic testing this past ..... in the history of the universe) than ever achieved. The telescope is a combined project of NASA, the European Space Agency

  8. Full-scale model of James Webb Space Telescope to go up at the Maryland Science Center

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    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    Baltimore, MD--A full-sized model of the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ) will be assembled and displayed at the Maryland Science ..... October 15-18. Experts will be on hand to discuss the Webb telescope 's deep-space mission, how it will observe distant galaxies