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Join Date: May 2004
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2004-05-20, 19:26

Excellent thread idea. I saw a special on this the other night and had the same thought but forgot to post one. Cassini is a really exciting mission.

Another cool NASA project that's about to come online: SOFIA

Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy. It's an *airborne* telescope with an eight foot mirror that is suspended in some kind of oil-based solution. Nice...

Then there's the LBT or Large Bincoluar Telescope project which will enable us to actually see many newly discovered planets that are currently too close to their companion stars to be viewed directly.

...into the light of a dark black night.
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