The optics engineering expertise at the NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., made it possible for a group of solar scientist to see into the sun’s corona in unprecedented detail. The final mirror configuration was completed with inputs from partners at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, or SAO, in Cambridge, Mass., and a new [...]
In a new study that was recently published in ‘Science,’ astronomers from all over the world assessed data from an array of four linked radio dishes located in Arizona (the Submillimeter Telescope), Hawaii (the James Clark Maxwell Telescope) and two from CARMA in California — which created a ‘super telescope’ capable of seeing details of [...]
25 October 2012 Rebecca Brodie Do you own a smartphone? Ever notice how warm they can get? What if you could harness some of that wasted energy and put it back into the phone’s battery? A group of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US have done just that. LSC with the dye molecules parallel [...]
