Tuesday, June 5, 2007

More eye in Space Telescope technology

Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception (Space Blog)

Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy. By taking advantage of the unique position of NASA's Spitzer's Space Telescope millions of miles from Earth, and a depth-perceiving trick called parallax, they were able to pin down the most probable location of one such object.

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