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IKAROS Spacecraft (Courtesy: JAXA) |
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The BigBOSS proposal adds a new widefield, prime-focus corrector to the Mayall 4-meter telescope. A focal array with 5,000 optical fibers, individually positioned by robotic actuators, delivers light to a set of 10 three-arm spectrometers. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Background photo Mark Duggan) |
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Hyper Suprime-Cam. The instrument weighs 3 tons and is 3 m (9 ft.) high. (Courtesy: NAOJ) |
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The layout of the 116 CCDs with a total of 870 million pixels. (Courtesy: NAOJ) |
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The Wide Field Corrector (Courtesy: NAOJ) |
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Astronomers in the observation room of the Subaru Telescope carry out performance tests of HSC. (Courtesy: NAOJ) |
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BOSS is capturing accurate spectra for millions of astronomical objects by using 2,000 plug plates that are placed at the Sloan Foundation Telescope's focal plane. Each of the 1,000 holes drilled in a single plug plate captures the light from a specific galaxy, quasar, or other target, and conveys its light to a sensitive spectrograph through an optical fiber. The plates are marked to indicate which holes belong to which bundles of the thousand optical fibers that carry the object's light. (Courtesy: Berkeley Lab) |
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View of the full H.E.S.S. array with the four 12 m telescopes and the new 28 m H.E.S.S. II telescope (Credit: H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Arnim Balzer) |
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The "camera" with photosensors and readout electronics is loaded into the nose of the telescope (Credit: H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Arnim Balzer) |
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XENON100 (Courtesy: XENON Collaboration) |
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An artist's rendering of the proposed Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The 8.4-meter LSST will use a special three-mirror design, creating an exceptionally wide field of view and will have the ability to survey the entire sky in only three nights. (Courtesy: LSST Corporation) |
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Higgs Boson search update - 4 July 2012 (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli) |
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Connecting hydraulically the Fast Cycled magnet to the cryogenic feed box. Patrck Viret and Guy Deferne technicians of TE-MSC-TF in SM18. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice) |
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Installation of the Fast Cycled Superconducting Magnet (FCM) to the new cold feed box in Sm18. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice) |
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High Resolution LSST Camera Image (Courtesy: LSST Corporation) |
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Illustration of the IceCube sensors (photomultipliers), of which more than 5000 are deployed up to 2.5km deep in the Antarctic ice. (Courtesy: NSF/J. Yang) |
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The IceCube Lab in the setting sun at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica in late March, 2012. IceCube uses a cubic kilometer of ice to house over 5,000 optical modules that are connected via cable to the lab. (Courtesy: NSF/S. Lidstrom) |
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Little is known about the ultra high-energy cosmic rays that regularly penetrate the atmosphere. Recent IceCube research rules out the leading theory that they come from Gamma Ray Bursts. (Courtesy: NSF/J. Yang) |
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NSLS-II construction site |
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) tunnel |
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SRB Solar Panel - Solar field from Valencia (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice) |
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Inside the ATLAS detector at CERN; work conducted during the 2011/2012 shut down. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice) |
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Preperation for work in the CMS shaft PX56 (Courtesy: Michael Hoch) |
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Visit of the ATLAS cavern by Prof. Murray Gell-Mann, Physics Nobel 1969. With Dr Peter Jenni and Dr Alison Lister (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice) |
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The 4-mile in circumference Tevatron accelerator uses superconducting magnets chilled to minus 450 degrees Fahrenheit, as cold as outer space, to move particles at nearly the speed of light. The Tevatron typically produces about 10 million proton-antiproton collisions per second. Each collision produces hundreds of particles. About 200 collisions per second are recorded at each detector for further analysis. As of July 2011, CDF has analyzed more than 8 inverse femtobarns of collision data while DZero has scrutinized up to 9 inverse femtobarns. The collaborations anticipate accumulating a total of 10 and 11 inverse femtobarns of data, respectively, by the time the Tevatron shuts down at the end of September. One inverse femtobarn represents about 50 trillion proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron. (Courtesy: Fermilab Visual Media Services) |
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