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Gas Clouds As Giant Telescopes

Posted by timothy on from the repurposing dept.

allrong writes "Astronomers have found a way to harness clouds of gas in space to make a natural 'telescope' more powerful than any manmade telescope currently in operation. Read the press release or take a look at the images and description of the process."

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  1. NASA Surrenders by boog3r · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA requests 4.2 bazillion (USD) to fly out there and fix the optics...

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  2. Radiotelescope/repeater by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was recently reading in Astronomer Monthly magazine that scientists now believe they can get usable signals from Voyager, long after they should be too faint, because they are amplified by the giant gas cloud that hovers around Uranus.

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