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By Oct 18, 2012
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Check Out The Most Richly Detailed Image Ever Taken Of Uranus

The images are the highest-resolution ever taken in the near infrared range. It looks much more active than when Voyager...
By Jul 10, 2012
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New Telescope Optics Can Directly View Exoplanets By Hiding Interfering Starlight

For now, the thousands of potential exoplanets discovered in the past two years are little more than curvy dips on...
By Oct 20, 2011
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Birth of Youngest Planet Ever Seen Is Witnessed With Telescopic Trick

Astronomers have captured the first direct image of a newly forming planet orbiting around its star, using mirrors to blot...
By Jul 27, 2011
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Advanced Optics That Let Telescopes See Deep Into Space Will Help Microscopes See Deep Inside Cells

Adaptive optics techniques used for the world’s most powerful telescopes will be used to image the smallest processes in living...
By Mar 1, 2011
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World’s Most Powerful Optical Microscope Lets Researchers See Inside Viruses

New technology breaks the theoretical limit on how small we can see
By Aug 25, 2010
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Big Bear Solar Observatory Snaps the Most Detailed Pic of a Sunspot Ever

Researchers at Big Bear Solar Observatory have tuned their adaptive optics array and achieved first light, capturing this image of...
By Jun 30, 2010
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Scientists Confirm the First Direct Photo of an Exoplanet

See that little dot in the upper left corner? It is a planet orbiting a sun-like star. We know of...
By Jun 18, 2010
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Liquid Mirror Breakthrough Could Make State-of-the-Art Optics Cheap

A $120 million Earth-based telescope using brand new adaptive optics just trumped Hubble’s deep space image clarity three-fold, but such...
By Jun 17, 2010
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New Earth-Based Telescope System Snaps Sharpest-Ever Pics of Deep Space

Three times sharper than Hubble
By Oct 28, 2009
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Air Force Uses Airborne Lasers to Create High-Speed Data Links

Researchers have tested the laser links at distances of almost 22 miles during flight