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China builds world's biggest fixed spectrometer telescope: 'LAMOST'

Madan | Nov 8 2008

The National Astronomical Observatories from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has completed their long awaited project “The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope or LAMOST”. Inspired by previous telescope Sloan Digital Sky...

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NASA wishes to visit the Sun in 2015!

Sameer Kumar | Aug 9 2008

We have created amazing fuss and plenty of intrigue about Mars and even as the Red Planet is still being explored, NASA has decided that it will try and get close to the sun and do that in seething hot conditions which would surely put to test anything.

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GPS-type system to help map lunar landscape

Jaiyant Cavale | Jul 22 2008

GPS system has inspired researchers to develop a similar tracking and mapping system for astronauts on the Moon. Moon's terrain and landscape pose a number of dangers and the obscure perils have in fact slowed research on the Moon. Hence, when Ron...

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DIY satellites to beam pictures of Earth

Jaiyant Cavale | Jul 8 2008

DIY helicopters were something that shocked everyone, a couple of weeks ago when they were introduced by an entrepreneur in China. However, the scientists at The University of Surrey have another DIY in making: satellites. Strange as it may sound,...

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Nasa telescope designed with lunar dust

Jaiyant Cavale | Jun 12 2008

Scientists at NASA are looking at new ways to reduce the baggage, which space ships have to carry during inter planetary expeditions. With this in mind, a telescope has been designed to be built on the moon without having to carry more than one tenth...

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Exploring the eternity beyond from the eyes of a cold sentinel!

Sameer Kumar | Apr 7 2008

It is really interesting that some people think the ‘dark matter’ is the modern equivalence to ether of the early 1900’s and could be proved non-existent. While I do not agree with that view, the only thing certain about modern Physics is...

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Meade mySKY Personal Guide: The geekiest device to explore the universe

Aneez | Oct 1 2007

Since my childhood days, I've been a secret admirer of the night sky. I love to watch those celestial bodies hovering in all their splendidness. So, it was natural for me to fall for this geeky hand-held device that adds excitement to your...

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DALSA develops world's highest-resolution 111-mega pixel CCD

Vikas Shekhawat | Jun 20 2006

DALSA Semiconductor successfully breaks the 100 million-pixel barrier with its new 111-mega pixel image sensor. The 4-inch-square world's highest-resolution CCD features an array of 10,560 x 10,560 pixels and is delivered to Semiconductor Technology...