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The result is the social-science equivalent of a particle accelerator or a space-based telescope, says Robert Willis, a University of Michigan economics professor and the survey's principal investigator.
ECONOMIST: Ageing America
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This, combined with a new digital camera developed for it by Mitsubishi Electric, will make it the most powerful ground-based optical telescope around.
ECONOMIST: Japan��s new telescope
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Thanks to observations made with the Gemini ground-based optical telescope in Hawaii, it quickly became clear that GRB130427A was superbright primarily because it lay only a few billion light years away.
CNN: Why gamma-ray burst shocked scientists
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Now, an international team of astronomers has trained the Fermi space-based gamma ray telescope on V407 Cygni, a "binary" system comprising a white dwarf star and a red giant companion, 9, 000 light-years away.
BBC: Gamma rays from nova explosion surprise astronomers
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One of five European Space Agency missions being considered for launch in the early 2020's, Nasa also has a series of exoplanet projects at various stages of development, and both the James Webb Space Telescope and ground based observatories are getting in on the act.
BBC: From counting to characterising exoplanets
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To say the telescope helped usher in a new age of astronomy based on the system of Copernicus would be an understatement.
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Follow-up observations are also being planned using other ground-based instruments, as well as several space observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
MSN: Newly discovered alien planet 'resets the bar for weird'
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Dr. Quanz and colleagues based their discovery on observations by a high-resolution infrared camera linked to a telescope located in Chile's Atacama Desert.
WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation
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Dr. Quanz and his colleagues based their discovery on observations made by a high-resolution infrared camera linked to a telescope located in Chile's Atacama desert.
WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation