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- BCNewfie2, on 07/01/2009, -0/+10I don't see Bette Midler anywhere.
- pln2bz, on 07/02/2009, -0/+3The cool part is that APEX is just a prototype for ALMA (The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array). ALMA will be 63 more dishes, coming online in 2012.
From The Invisible Universe, by Gerrit Verschuur ... "In order to work effectively and efficiently at the submillimeter wavelength range these 12-m dishes have to be smooth to better than 17 thousands of a millimeter, or, in the words of an APEX press release, less than one fifth of the thickness of a human hair."
The dishes are so smooth that they are shiny, even though they're radio dishes -- like what you'd use to watch satellite television.
Many people don't realize that the radio bandwidth is 1000x the optical bandwidth. There are radio telescope arrays under construction right now that will eventually permit us to see the radio bandwidths with the same accuracy as Hubble has for the optical spectrum.
But, in order to fully appreciate these new toys, scientists will have to learn to keep an open mind about what they're seeing. - philb0t5000, on 07/02/2009, -0/+2I wonder how many of these stars have already been born
- chadsexingtime, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1We don't need a galactic disc map when we have star search
- MikeyMoose, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Cool - so now we know where to send flowers?
- Louay, on 07/02/2009, -1/+2you should be dugg up a million times
- meninostongue, on 07/02/2009, -0/+0Amazing. Some of those stars will have planets. A few of those planets may develop life. It may be well after our Sun has run its course, and life here had advanced more from this point in history than it has until now, that somewhere else it is just getting its start.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -0/+0...must play Galactic Civilizations 2 now
- R3publican, on 07/02/2009, -0/+0I wonder how many will be on American Idol.
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