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Northrop Grumman Successfully Delivers Deformable Mirror for World's Largest Solar Telescope
2015-08-07 12:31:18| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
DEVENS, Mass., - The world's largest ground-based solar telescope is one step closer to operation with the acceptance of the deformable mirror engineered by AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) company. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), currently under construction on Haleakala on...
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Protesters bring fight against Hawaiian telescope to astronomy meeting
2015-08-05 07:35:09| Airlines - Topix.net
Until now, the biggest controversy involving the International Astronomical Union may have been its 2006 vote to demote Pluto to a dwarf planet. But on 4 August, the ongoing fight over a telescope planned for a sacred Hawaiian mountain spilled over to the IAU general assembly in Honolulu.
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Green Bank Telescope Joins 'Breakthrough Listen' To Vastly Accelerate Search For Intelligent Life In The Universe
2015-07-21 05:50:09| rfglobalnet News Articles
The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) will join in the most powerful, comprehensive, and intensive scientific search ever for signs of intelligent life in the Universe. The international endeavor, known as the Breakthrough Listen, will scan the nearest million stars in our own Galaxy and stars in 100 other galaxies for the telltale radio signature of an advanced civilization.
Astronomers are already planning the next, next Hubble telescope
2015-07-08 22:48:57| Extremetech
The JWST hasn't even launched yet, and astronomers are already planning a successor that could leave it in the dust.
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Trial alternative considered for Hawaii telescope protesters
2015-07-08 00:53:34| Airlines - Topix.net
" Instead of a trial, most of the people arrested in April for blocking construction of a giant mountaintop telescope will likely participate in a Hawaiian culture-based form of mediation. Three defendants in the case filed a motion asking for a hooponopono as an alternative to a trial.
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