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  • NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Back in Business
    News - 30 Oct 2008
    Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a...
  • High Energy Neutral Atom Imager Captures Evidence of Far-Distant Particle Collisions
    News - 18 Oct 2008
    A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High...
  • Fermi Telescope Discovers Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar
    News - 16 Oct 2008
    About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, is the...
  • The Eventual Power of Thirty Meter Telescope
    News - 8 Oct 2008
    Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues used a rare cosmic alignment and modern adaptive optics to image a distant galaxy with similar exquisite resolution...
  • Litron Lasers Ltd.
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    Litron Lasers is a manufacturer of pulsed and CW Nd:YAG lasers. All of our lasers are designed and manufactured by Litron in Rugby, England. Litron was formed in 1997 and pioneered commercial...
  • TNO's Star Separators Successfully Tested
    News - 19 Sep 2008
    The PRIMA facility with TNO's Star Separators was successfully tested during a "first light" test at the beginning of September. PRIMA will set a new benchmark in astrometry and will...
  • First Light for the PRIMA Instrument
    News - 19 Sep 2008
    The PRIMA instrument [1] of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) recently saw "first light" at its new home atop Cerro Paranal in Chile. When fully operational, PRIMA will...
  • Shake, Rattle and Roll: The MIRI Instrument Gets Tested
    News - 17 Sep 2008
    You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea. But when it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space,...
  • Hubble Space Telescope Captures Rare Alignment Between Two Spiral Galaxies
    News - 16 Sep 2008
    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal...
  • 1.2m Telescope Allows Amateurs to Peer into the Heavens at Professional Levels
    News - 15 Sep 2008
    NJIT physics professor Andrew Gerrard hopes by the end of October to be able to peer through what will be the second largest optical telescope east of Texas. Under his direction, a 1.2-meter diameter,...

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