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Million WIYN telescope, allowing Yale astronomers to study the stars and galaxies without leaving the campus. ppg industries
"When we demonstrated the remote link recently to graduate students, we could see education happening in the room," says associate professor Charles Bailyn, who has been in charge of hardware and software adaptations for viewing via the Internet. "The quality of the images makes classroom lectures become real. lund industries Even undergraduate students will have access to the telescope, which produces some of the best images of space available from the earth's surface, surpassed only by the Hubble Space Telescope."
The WIYN telescope, which was built in 1994, is co-owned by Yale, Wisconsin and Indiana universities along with the Tucson- based National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO). The three universities paid construction costs in return for 60 percent of the obse
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