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Photos: Eye across the Atlantic
Photo After almost 100 years a Victorian dream of building a telescope to look from London to New York has been realised. The elaborate gold telescope, pictured, houses an oval screen to give the illusion of peering into a intercontinental kaleidoscope. [28 May 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo This is one of the more famous images from the Hubble telescope called the "Pillars of Creation". The WorldWide Telescope is a rich web application that accesses high-resolution images taken by ground- and Earth-orbiting telescopes such as the... [19 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up The program seamlessly stitches together incredible images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other telescopes so profoundly huge they have a noticeable effect on global tidal... [16 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Microsoft has launched its WorldWide Telescope, a... [14 May 2008]
Redmond research lab shows what's cooking
News The software draws on tens of millions of digital images that are part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other sources, such as Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. Among the projects on display this year is one called 'World-wide Telescope', which... [07 Mar 2007]
Data Quality Analysis at the Spitzer Science Center
White Paper Data Quality Analysis (DQA) for astronomical infrared maps and spectra acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is one of the important functions performed in routine science operations at the Spitzer Science Center of the California Institute... [05 Feb 2007]
BT to block access to child pornography sites
News The BT scheme is hopes that by looking at the problem from the other end of the telescope, the company can "take a step in the right direction" towards tackling it. BT has announced it is trialling technology that will prevent any of its customers... [07 Jun 2004]
