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Sensitive UV Detector Ignores Visible Light

Posted by michael on from the tan-don't-burn dept.

techmaven writes: "Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new device that detects ultraviolet light and at the same time ignores visible light. The researchers said that the new detector could lead to a UV light detector approximately 10 times more sensitive than those now on the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing astronomers to observe important objects throughout the universe for the first time."

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  1. Filter. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A filter. Well done chaps.

    1. Re:Filter. by global_diffusion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      How is this offtopic? I'd mod it unfair, but then again, I have no mod points...

      waiting for that two minute gap...

  2. Can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...a Beowulf cluster of these?

    Thank you.

    -Patrick Bateman, Esq.

    1. Re:Can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hmmm...yes...yes, I can. Interesting.