Another company that I like a lot is a medial diagnostic and imaging system company by the name of Digirad ( DRAD).

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To do that, Project 1640 effectively blots out the light from stars, which allows astronomers to more clearly observe what might be around them, including objects up to 10 million times fainter than the star itself (the image on the right above is a nearby star captured with the imaging system in place, compared to the same star captured without the new system on the left).

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In the researchers' new imaging system, a beam of infrared laser light is widely dispersed throughout a room.

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