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...times higher than previous photographs, according to Goodman. Fellow astronomers hailed the “cloudshine” finding. “I agree with Professor Goodman that cloudshine will prove to be very revealing,” the director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics, Charles R. Alcock, wrote in an e-mail. Goodman is also a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center. Foster and Goodman summarized their findings in a paper submitted for publication to the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Traditional images of nebulae, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, employ only the visible light spectrum. While these...
...determinant, rather, was that Oak Ridge didn’t compare to other CFA sites in Arizona, Chile, and Hawaii, according to Professor of Astronomy and CFA Director Charles Alcock, who made the decision...
...Alcock said that despite the fact that CFA’s other telescopes are farther away, astronomers “can collect so much high quality data so quickly that geographic inconveniences are worth overcoming...
Stefanik said that without the CFA’s support, all educational activities involving the telescope at Oak Ridge—which included visits by students from a variety of universities and high schools—would cease. Alcock said that while some small projects—including a search for extraterrestrial life project and a seismic station, would continue at Oak Ridge—the site’s future is unclear...
...most likely location of the telescope is Las Campanas, Chile, where the Magellan telescopes are already located and the Carnegie Observatories have worked for 20 years. Chile’s high altitude and dry weather make it one of the better locations from which to observe outer space, Alcock said...