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Venus, if you will, as seen in radar with the Green Bank Telescope Posted: 09 Mar 2015 02:48 PM PDT Recently, by combining the highly sensitive receiving capabilities of the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope and the powerful radar transmitter at the NSF's Arecibo Observatory, astronomers were able to make remarkably detailed images of the surface of Venus without ever leaving Earth.

Scientists gather to prepare for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Posted: 09 Mar 2015 02:45 PM PDT When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope begins in 2022 to image the entire southern sky from a mountaintop in Chile, it will produce the widest, deepest and fastest views of the night sky ever observed – and a flood of 6 million gigabytes of data per year that are expected to provide new insights into dark matter, dark energy and other cosmic mysteries.

Carina Nebula survey reveals details of star formation Posted: 09 Mar 2015 09:41 AM PDT A new survey of one of the most active, star-forming regions in the galactic neighborhood is helping astronomers better understand the processes that may have contributed to the formation of the sun 4.5 billion years ago.