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NASAs newest telescope is housed in a special jumbo jet that flies at 45,000 feet

2014-07-11 15:42:23| Extremetech

NASA has recently completed certification of the SOFIA flying telescope, which lives in a specially designed jumbo jet. It's the next best thing to being in space.

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Three New Polish Antenna Stations For LOFAR Telescope

2014-06-20 12:40:31| rfglobalnet Home Page

Recently, ASTRON and the Polish LOFAR consortium POLFAR signed a contract for the construction of three new antenna stations for the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) in the north, west and south of Poland.

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A Telescope Is Born

2014-06-13 08:26:14| rfglobalnet Home Page

It may look like just dots on a page, but an image of distant galaxies taken last week represents a huge step forward for CSIRO's Australia SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in Western Australia.

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ALMA Upgrade To Supercharge Event Horizon Telescope, Astronomy's Killer App'

2014-06-06 09:45:00| rfglobalnet Home Page

Scientists recently upgraded theAtacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)by installing an ultraprecise atomic clock at ALMA’s Array Operations Site, home to the observatory’s supercomputing correlator.

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