Hi there, It was only a short while ago (Dec 14 2009) that WISE was launched to scna the sky in infrared but now it has run out of coolant! It’s a bit sad really… Feb. 17 – The WISE Spacecraft transmitter was turned off for the final time at 12:00 noon PST today (Feb […]
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Planck’s version of the CIB is quite startling as well – as I am sure many of you have seen some of the photos by now, for there is more information as Planck looks through voids in the milky way to see deeper… Every spot in these images of the sky represents a point of
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There is so much great and exciting news around at the moment, and most of you have probably read some of the articles of the most distant object, well for those who haven’t I’ve been reading furiously about many of these latest developments, and have a list of articles and papers and photo that you
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There has been a few really interesting things happening lately and I wanted to share them with you all. If you have already read about them then that’s even better – but with studies and work is sometimes hard to keep up with everything, here are a couple of news items that I found interesting.
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Two significant events happened recently and if you aren’t presently aware of them; then, I’d like ot share them with you here: 1) The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has seen first light and is fully operational. and worth reading about as it one of the new VLTs around. While the The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer
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A couple of interesting articles appeared on New Scientist in past weeks, you will probably need a subscription to read them, so I’ve posted the main theme here: __________________________________ The scientist pope who lit up the Dark Ages 22 December 2010 by James Hannam – Magazine issue 2792. AROUND AD 1000, Gerbert of Aurillac served
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