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WIYN

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WIYNWisconsin, Indiana, Yale, NOAO (consortium)
WIYNWisconsin, Indiana, Yale and National (optical astronomy observatories)
WIYNWhat Is Your Number?


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Observations from NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope and the visible-light WIYN telescope atop Kitt Peak in Arizona show that the plume contains old, red stars--exactly the type expected to make up the main stellar population in old elliptical galaxies.
The One Degree Imager will deliver an image 100 times larger than the Hubble with comparable clarity," explained Senior Mechanical Engineer Gary Muller, accepting the award on behalf of the WIYN Observatory Tucson, Ariz.
With Swift's X-ray data as guidance and using two telescopes in Arizona, the WIYN Telescope on Kitt Peak and the PAIRITEL on Mount Hopkins, Josh Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley and his colleagues found an elliptical galaxy, devoid of new stars, that lies about 2.
 
 
 
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