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| 2008 News |
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Imagine Optic Delivers Laser Metrology and Adaptive Optics for AWE's Orion Laser
Dec 2008
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Unprecedented 16-Year Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole
Dec 2008
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Boston Micromachines Deformable Mirrors Open Possibilities For Astronomical Research
Dec 2008
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ALPAO to Exhibit at Photonics West
Nov 2008
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Beta Pictoris Planet Finally Imaged?
Nov 2008
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The likely planet around 1RSX J160929.1-210524.
© Gemini
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VLT and APEX Team Up To Study Flares From the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Core
Nov 2008
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Astronomers Capture First Images Of Newly-Discovered Solar System
Nov 2008
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Keck Adaptive Optics and "Cosmic Lens" Resolve Nature and Fate of Early Star-Forming Galaxy
Oct 2008
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes AOptix For Its Stand-Off Iris Recognition System
Oct 2008
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ESO's Multi-Conjugate AO Demonstrator Delivers Sharpest Ground-Based Whole-Planet Image Of Jupiter
Oct 2008
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Rensselaer's Liquid Camera Lens Controlled By Sound
Sept 2008
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First Picture Of Likely Planet Around Sun-like Star
Sept 2008
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VLT's AO-Assisted Spectrograph Hints At the Presence Of Planets In Young Gas Discs
Sept 2008
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Imagine Eyes Launches mirao 52-e For Retinal Imaging and Vision Science Applications
Sept 2008
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AOptix Awarded AFRL Contract for Wireless Ultra-High Data Rate Demonstration
Aug 2008
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CILAS To Supply New “Monomorph” Deformable Mirrors For High Power Lasers
Aug 2008
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Boston Micromachines Delivers New Deformable Mirror Controller
Aug 2008
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Optical Vortex Coronagraph Could Improve Discovery of Planets
June 2008
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Astronomers Weigh the Coldest Brown Dwarfs With Astronomy's Sharpest Eyes
June 2008
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DARPA Program To Utilize AOptix Adaptive Optics Technology For the ORCA Project
May 2008
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The Little Man and the Cosmic Cauldron
May 2008
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The binary 2MASS 1534-2952AB, composed of two methane brown dwarfs.
© M. Liu
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Keck, Hubble Images Show Continued Turbulence In Jupiter's Atmosphere
May 2008
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AOptix Technologies Broadcast Lasercom System Wins Double TV Technology Awards
May 2008
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Boston Micromachines Unveils Major Enhancement to Kilo-DM
Apr 2008
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Compact Galaxies In Early Universe Pack a Big Punch
Apr 2008
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AOptix Technologies Demonstrates a Technology First For HD Sports Television Production
Apr 2008
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Astrophysicists Observe A Circumstellar Disk With Tell-Tale Signs Of Planet Formation
Mar 2008
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International Team Discovers New Solar System
Feb 2008
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A Lightweight Disk Around a Lightweight Star May Harbor Earth-like Planet
Feb 2008
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Boston University Astronomers Map Full Extent Of Mercury's Comet-Like Tail
Feb 2008
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Nova Phenomenon Explained With Interferometer Nulling Mode at Keck Observatory
Jan 2008
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Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Introduce Adaptive Optics Toolkit
Jan 2008
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CILAS To Design and Prototype Adaptive Mirror For European Extremely Large Telescope
Jan 2008
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| 2007 News |
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Second Generation Coronagraphic Imager HiCIAO Commissioned On Subaru Telescope
Dec 2007
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VLT's NACO Instrument Reveals a Triple Cosmic Collision
Dec 2007
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The ground layer adaptive optics system in use at the William Herschel Telescope.
© J. Méndez
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Subaru Reveals "Frameworks" of Galaxies 11 Billion Years Ago
Dec 2007
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CILAS Delivers Record 1,377 Actuator Adaptive Mirror To ESO
Dec 2007
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Commits $200 Million Support for Thirty-Meter Telescope
Dec 2007
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First Ground-Layer Adaptive-Optics System For General Astronomical Observations
Nov 2007
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Boston Micromachines Awarded Grant To Build Device To Prevent Friendly Fire
Nov 2007
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Boston Micromachines and Indiana University To Develop AO Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
Oct 2007
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Northrop Grumman Acquires Xinetics Inc.
Oct 2007
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David Williams Honored For Work In Vision Science
Oct 2007
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Methane Drizzle On Saturn's Moon Titan
Oct 2007
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Keck Adaptive Optics Takes Sharpest Picture of Pluto System
Oct 2007
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Scientists 'Weigh' Tiny Galaxy Halfway Across Universe
Oct 2007
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MICADO (MICroscopy with ADaptive Optics) Consortium to Use Adaptive Optics for Deep-Tissue Imaging
Sept 2007
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Subaru Telescope Uncovers a Misaligned Jet in a Binary Star System
Sept 2007
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Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Partner to Further Deploy Deformable Mirrors to the Photonics Industry
Sept 2007
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MEMSCAP Optical Technology Helps Protect Human Vision
Sept 2007
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Boston Micromachines' Multi-DM Named One of the Year's Most Innovative Products
Sept 2007
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AOptix Technologies to Exhibit Adaptive Optics-Based, Stand-Off Iris Recognition System
Sept 2007
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The dark side of the rings of Uranus.
© I. de Pater et al.
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Lucky Imaging Plus Adaptive Optics Produce Sharpest Ever Images of the Heavens In Visible Light
Sept 2007
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‘One Of The Most Curious Objects In The Sky’ Delights Astronomers Again
Aug 2007
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Digital Multimeters
Optical Test Equipment
Oscilloscopes
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Power Supplies
Signal/Function Generators
Spectrum Analyzers
Technical Cameras
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Adaptive Optics
MEMS
Spatial Light Modulators
Wavefront Sensors
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Keck, Hubble Provide Edge-On View Of Uranus' Rings
Aug 2007
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Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation
Aug 2007
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VLT Interferometer Detects Dusty Puff Around R CrB Variable Star
Aug 2007
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Photos of the VLT's Laser Guide Star: "The Planet, the Galaxy and the Laser"
Aug 2007
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Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star HD 15115
July 2007
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Univ. of Central Florida, Holochip Corp. Announce Licensing Agreement for Zoom Lens Patents
July 2007
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Gemini Adaptive Optics Finds Possible Cryovolcanism On Charon
July 2007
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Airborne Laser Compensates for Atmospheric Turbulence and Fires Surrogate High-Energy Laser
July 2007
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Benchmark Survey Shows that Giant Outer Extrasolar Planets Are Rare
July 2007
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LLNL Wins Top Innovation Award For MEMS-Based Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
July 2007
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Inexpensive ‘Adaptive Optics’ Achieved By Sandia’s Optical Clamp
July 2007
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Back On Track: Integral Field Spectroscopy Brings AB Dor C Back In Line With Theory
June 2007
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The Dwarf Planet Known As Eris Is More Massive Than Pluto, New Data Shows
June 2007
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Laser Guide Star System on ESO's VLT Starts Regular Science Operations
June 2007
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AOptix Technologies Raises $15 Million In New Venture Funding
May 2007
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Sensors Unlimited Introduces InGaAs-SWIR Video Camera With High Frame Rate ROI Windowing
May 2007
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Adaptive Optics Pinpoints Two Supermassive Black Holes In Colliding Galaxies
May 2007
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Boston Micromachines’ Deformable Mirrors Advance Multi Photon Microscopy
May 2007
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Largest, Brightest Supernova Discovered
May 2007
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"Red Square" Nebula Captured by Palomar and Keck Telescopes
Apr 2007
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© P. Tuthill, Palomar/Keck
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First Ever Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System Achieves First Light at the VLT
Mar 2007
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Binary Asteroid Antiope Is Made of Loose Rubble
Mar 2007
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Gemini's Laser Vision Reveals Striking New Details of Orion "Bullets"
Mar 2007
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Boston Micromachines to Build Largest Ever MEMS Deformable Mirror for Gemini Planet Imager
Mar 2007
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AOptix Introduces Two New AO-Based 40Gb/sec FSO Comms Terminals
Mar 2007
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Adaptive Optics Boosts Performance of Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography
Feb 2007
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Boston Micromachines and Imagine Optic Enhance Products
For Wavefront Sensing and Correction
Jan 2007
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| 2006 News |
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Rensselaer Licenses Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope Technology To Thorlabs
Dec 2006
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ESO Council Gives Green Light to Detailed Study of the European Extremely Large Telescope
Dec 2006
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© Subaru Telescope, NAOJ
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The Airborne Laser Narrows Its Beam
Dec 2006
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Subaru Telescope Adds Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System
Nov 2006
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Keck Adaptive Optics Images the Dwarf Planet Ceres
Oct 2006
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Boston Micromachines Technology Supports NASA's Search for Extra-Solar Planets
Oct 2006
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OKO Tech Introduces 109 Channel Low-Cost Piezoelectric Deformable Mirror
Oct 2006
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New Mexico Tech To Set Up Adaptive Optics Commercialization Center
Sept 2006
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Essex Corporation to Acquire Adaptive Optics Associates
Sept 2006
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Boston Micromachines to Build Device to Prevent Friendly Fire
Sept 2006
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SINFONI Discovers Rapidly Forming, Large Proto-Disc Galaxies Three Billion Years After The Big Bang
Aug 2006
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Infrared image of Jupiter's Red Spot,
observed with the Keck AO system.
© I. de Pater et al.
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Keck Adaptive Optics Snaps Near-Infrared Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Aug 2006
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Gemini Planet Imager Project Kicks Off
June 2006
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Thirty Meter Telescope Passes Conceptual Design Review
June 2006
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Adaptive Optics Associates Wins Northrop Grumman Laser Designator Contract
Apr 2006
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Retinal OCT Imaging System to Incorporate Adaptive Optics
Apr 2006
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Blue Ring Of Very Small Particles Discovered Around Uranus
Apr 2006
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University of Arizona Optical Scientists Develop Switchable Focus Eyeglass Lenses
Apr 2006
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Very Cool Brown Dwarf Discovered Near the Sun
Mar 2006
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First Light for the VLT Laser Guide Star Facility
Feb 2006
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Binary Asteroid Patroclus In Jupiter's Orbit May Be Icy Comet From Solar System's Infancy
Feb 2006
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PixelOptics to Develop SuperVision for U.S. Military
Jan 2006
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The binary Trojan asteroid Patroclus, imaged by the Keck AO LGS system.
© F. Marchis et al.
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Astronomers Determine Orbits Of Stars Around Supermassive Black Hole at Galactic Center
Jan 2006
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Boston Micromachines Unveils New MEMS Mirror
Jan 2006
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Adaptive Optics Software
Adaptive Optics Toolkit for MATLAB
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Scientists See Better, Fainter with New Keck Laser Guide Star
Jan 2006
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OKO Introduces Linear Piezoelectric Deformable Mirror for Femtosecond Pulse Shaping
Jan 2006
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| 2005 News |
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Color-receptive cones on the living human retina
© Univ. of Rochester
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Astronomers Use Laser to Take Clearest Images of the Center of the Milky Way
Dec 2005
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Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests
Dec 2005
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Color Perception Is Not in the Eye of the Beholder: It's in the Brain
Oct 2005
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New VLT Images Reveal the Surroundings of a Super-massive Black Hole
Oct 2005
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Adaptive Optics Produces Ultrasharp Images of Sunspot
Oct 2005
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Astronomers Using Adaptive Optics Discover Tenth Planet's Moon
Sept 2005
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The Becklin-Neugebauer Object: Circumstellar Disk Cradles Young Massive Star
Aug 2005
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Gemini Observatory Board Goes Forward with Extreme Adaptive Optics Coronagraph
Aug 2005
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Adaptive Optics Observations Discover First Triple Asteroid System
Aug 2005
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Palomar Telescope Observes Collision of Deep Impact Probe With Comet Tempel 1
July 2005
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Solid State Laser for Subaru Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
July 2005
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Mirror Casting Begins For the Giant Magellan Telescope
June 2005
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AOptix Technologies Introduces AO-Based FSO Communications Product
June 2005
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UC Santa Cruz Dedicates New Laboratory for Adaptive Optics Facilities
May 2005
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Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System
Apr 2005
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© ESO
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New Young Sub-stellar Companion Of the Star GQ Lupi Imaged With the VLT
Apr 2005
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Research Partnership Advances X-ray Active Optics
Mar 2005
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Ground-Based AO Observations Of Titan Back Up Huygens Probe Landing
Feb 2005
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Thirty Meter Telescope Project Issues Request for Proposals for Facility Adaptive Optics System
Feb 2005
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VLT's Simultaneous Differential Imager Weighs the Smallest Stars
Jan 2005
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Divining the Source Of the Water-Fountain Nebula
Jan 2005
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Keck Laser Captures New View Of Distant Colliding Galaxies
Jan 2005
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| 2004 News |
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Clumps in the dusk disk around AU Mic suggest the presence of young planets.
© M. Liu, IFA-Hawaii/W.M. Keck Obs.
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New Clouds Add to Titan's Mystery
Dec 2004
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CILAS Wins Two Major Contracts For Deformable Mirrors In the United States
Dec 2004
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Keck Pictures Of Uranus Show Best View From the Ground
Nov 2004
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Laser Points to the Future at Palomar
Nov 2004
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Laser Vision Gives New Eyes to Keck Telescope
Sept 2004
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VLT Takes Images and Spectra of Possible Exoplanet Near Young Brown Dwarf
Sept 2004
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MEMX Receives SBIR Award To Develop MEMS Mirror For Ophthalmic Adaptive Optics
Aug 2004
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Adaptive Optics Assisted Integral Field Spectrograph SINFONI Installed at VLT
Aug 2004
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Sharpest Image Ever Obtained Of a Circumstellar Disk Reveals Signs Of Young Planets
Aug 2004
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Novel Camera Set to Produce the First Direct Images of Extrasolar Planets
June 2004
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Surprising Colorblindness Finding Sheds Light On Retinal Diseases
June 2004
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Dunn Solar Telescope's New AO System Captures Solar Flare
May 2004
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Quasars: Cosmic Powerhouses Dwelling In Humble Galactic Homes
May 2004
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Iris AO Awarded Three SBIR Grants and Further CfAO Funding
May 2004
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Lockheed Martin Completes Integrated Testing of Airborne Laser's Beam Control/Fire Control System
May 2004
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VLT Looks Through Narrow Atmospheric Window For Most Detailed Images Of Titan's Surface
Apr 2004
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Laser Guide Star Teams With Adaptive Optics To Shed Light on Massive Star Formation
Feb 2004
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MEMX Receives Four SBIR Phase I Awards From NSF and National Eye Institute
Jan 2004
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| 2003 News |
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UK Consortium Announces 'ALFONSO', a DTI-Funded Project for Advanced Free Space Optics
Dec 2003
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Flares Near Edge Of Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole Indicate Rapid Spin
Oct 2003
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© Francois Wildi
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Back-Thinned L3Vision CCDs From e2v Set Unprecedented Standards In Low Light Sensitivity
Oct 2003
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Keck Telescope Achieves AO Correction With Laser Guide Star
Oct 2003
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Keck's High-Resolution Images Of Asteroid (511) Davida
Sept 2003
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Adaptive Optics Phoropter Wins R&D 100 Award
July 2003
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International Gemini Observatory Celebrates Success of Altair Adaptive Optics System
July 2003
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VLT Interferometer Gets Adaptive Optics Feed
May 2003
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Two Research Partnerships To Develop AO For High-Resolution Retinal Imaging
Mar 2003
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World's First Adaptive Secondary Mirror Commissioned On MMT Telescope
Feb 2003
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Indiana Vision Scientists Use Adaptive Optics To Improve Diagnosis Of Eye Diseases
Jan 2003
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Zooming-In on Star Formation in the Orion Nebula Using the Keck Adaptive Optics System
Jan 2003
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| 2002 News |
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Methane Clouds Discovered at South Pole of Saturn's Moon Titan
Dec 2002
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First light for the laser guide star on the Keck II telescope.
© J. McDonald, CFHT
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MEMX Receives $100,000 STTR Award from NASA To Develop MEMS Optical Beam Steerers
Dec 2002
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UC Berkeley Researchers Report Exceptionally Bright Eruption On Io
Nov 2002
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SFI Fellowship for National University of Ireland, Galway, to Support AO Research
Nov 2002
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Star Orbiting Massive Milky Way Centre Approaches To Within 17 Light-Hours
Oct 2002
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A Sharper Look At Near Earth Asteroid 2002 NY40
Sept 2002
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NSF Director Rita Colwell Helps Dedicate the Center for Adaptive Optics
June 2002
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Adaptive Optics Technology Provides Powerful Tools For Eye Doctors
June 2002
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Adaptive Optics Ushers In a New Era In Ground-Based Astronomy
June 2002
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Keck Telescope's Adaptive Optics Let Astronomers Study Volcanic Activity On Io From Armchair On Earth
June 2002
(with Keck's video of Io)
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UC Santa Cruz Receives $9.1 Million Grant to Establish Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
Jan 2002
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Brown Dwarf Found Around Nearby, Sun-Like Star
Jan 2002
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Astronomers Discover Edge-On Protoplanetary Disk in Quadruple Star System
Jan 2002
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World’s Largest Telescope Creates A Virtual Star Over Hawaii
Jan 2002
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| 2001 News |
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First Light for the VLT's NAOS-CONICA Facility Adaptive Optics Instrument
Dec 2001
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ESO's ADONIS AO System Observes Low-mass Eclipsing Binary Star in Orion
Oct 2001
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© ESO
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Arizona Optical Scientists To Develop Eyeglasses with Built-in Autofocus
July 2001
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Very Small Galactic Bulge Could Change Ideas Of Galaxy Formation
June 2001
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Two 10-m Keck Telescopes Combine As Interferometer For the First Time
Mar 2001
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| 2000 News |
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© I. de Pater/UC Berkeley
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First Light For Subaru Telescope's Adaptive Optics
Dec 2000
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Astronomers Image Double Asteroid Antiope and a New Moon Of Asteroid Pulcova
Oct 2000
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Keck Images of Neptune Best Ever Captured: Reveal New Details of Giant Planet's Icy Atmosphere
Oct 2000
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Gemini Cuts Deep Into Galactic Core with Release of First Data
Oct 2000
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Technology First Aimed at Heavens Now Makes 'Super' Human Vision Possible
June 2000
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ABL Continues Making Progress with Delivery of Two Airborne Laser Steering Mirrors
June 2000
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| 1999 News |
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Astronomers Discover Moon Orbiting Asteroid Eugenia
Oct 1999
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National Science Board Approves New NSF Science and Technology Center for Adaptive Optics
July 1999
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© W.M. Keck Observatory
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Clearest Images of Retina Reveal Remarkable Randomness
Feb 1999
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Keck Adaptive Optics System Achieves First Light
Feb 1999
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