Word: fazio
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According to Giovanni G. Fazio, senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, researchers are developing the space infrared telescope facility (SIRTF) in hopes of better understanding star formation by looking at the cores of dense stellar clouds...
...Fazio, also a lecturer in the Astronomy Department, says he expects the telescope to be launched by the year 2002. He hopes the telescope will enable scientists to detect of planets clustered around stars as well as the study of early galaxy formation, or "cosmic birth...