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ESO’s new MOONS spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope took first light able to watch about 1,000 cosmic targets at once through roughly 1,000 fibers, built to map millions ...

First-light collage for ESO’s MOONS spectrograph on the VLT: Unit Telescope 1 at Cerro Paranal with an inset of Baade’s Window showing fibre pointings. Credit: ESO/MOONS team/VVV survey/F. Char (ESO ...
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Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% ...

Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of ...
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For 21 years, millions of volunteers let UC Berkeley use their home computers to search the sky for alien signals, producing 12 billion detections — after a decade of ...

The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...