<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Telescope : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>35258</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35258/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hubble telescope: Solved and Unsolved mysteries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beyond snapping extraordinary pictures of faraway nebulas, the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope has completely transformed our view of the universe since it was launched in 1990. By capturing the clearest, deepest images of the cosmos ever, Hubble has shed light on some long-standing mysteries perplexing scientists-while uncovering far deeper ones that have yet to be solved.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>123</score><crdate>9/10/2007 11:20:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-10T23:20:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27100</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27100/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Telescope gives deepest view of space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on the Big Island.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>69</score><crdate>7/12/2007 2:53:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-12T02:53:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53443</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53443/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Large binocular telescope achieves first binocular light]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first &quot;binocular&quot; light.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>211</score><crdate>3/7/2008 2:10:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-07T02:10:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31110</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31110/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists Battle Skunks to Develop the Next Generation of Space Telescopes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scheduled for launch in 2013, the Webb telescope is widely regarded as the premier observatory of the next decade. It is an infrared telescope, which means it senses the heat of stars and galaxies millions and even billions of light years away.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>60</score><crdate>8/11/2007 11:15:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-11T11:15:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18805</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/18805/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space telescope makes startling discovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope has provided evidence representing a major upset for conventional theories that propose a single period for star birth.  The European Space Agency said the telescope, observing globular cluster NGC 2808, has shown three separate generations of stars formed early in the cluster's life.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>40</score><crdate>5/2/2007 8:42:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-02T20:42:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44294</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44294/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>174</score><crdate>12/15/2007 7:49:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-15T07:49:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31781</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31781/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The World's Smallest Telescope -- In Your Eye]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT)<br/><br/><br/>I kinda want one.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>101</score><crdate>8/16/2007 12:49:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-16T00:49:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47401</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47401/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Arecibo telescope finds critical ingredients for the soup of life in a galaxy far, far away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules methanimine and hydrogen cyanide &#8211; two ingredients that build life-forming amino acids &#8211; in a galaxy some 250 million light years away.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>304</score><crdate>1/16/2008 12:00:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-16T00:00:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>24731</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24731/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Progress made toward lunar liquid mirror telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the dream of building a powerful telescope on the moon that could withstand even the harshest of lunar conditions.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>79</score><crdate>6/21/2007 8:47:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-21T20:47:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>11676</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/11676/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New South Pole telescope to study mysterious dark energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new South Pole Telescope (SPT) has successfully collected its first light as part of a long-term project to unravel one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology, researchers announced today.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>13</score><crdate>2/26/2007 3:21:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-26T15:21:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22460</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22460/1/</url><title><![CDATA[NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception]]></title><description><![CDATA[By taking advantage of the unique position of NASA's Spitzer's Space Telescope millions of miles from Earth, and a depth-perceiving trick called parallax, they were able to pin down the most probable location of one such object.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>55</score><crdate>6/2/2007 11:55:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-02T11:55:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74746</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74746/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New virtual telescope zooms in on Milky Way's super-massive black hole]]></title><description><![CDATA[An international team, led by astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>182</score><crdate>9/4/2008 12:01:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-04T00:01:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64375</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64375/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Monster telescope planned for Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA scientists have found a way to make giant space telescopes out of moondust. They unveiled plans today to mix lunar soil with a chemical hardener to make a light-collecting mirror more than 50 metres wide.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>252</score><crdate>6/5/2008 4:11:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-05T04:11:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43181</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43181/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Messier 74, also called NGC 628, is a stunning example of a 'grand-design' spiral galaxy that is viewed by Earth observers nearly face-on. Its perfectly symmetrical spiral arms emanate from the central nucleus and are dotted with clusters of young blue stars.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>202</score><crdate>12/3/2007 7:48:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-03T19:48:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39530</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39530/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hubble's Top Ten Discoveries]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of Hubble Space Telescope images shows distant supernovas, the death explosions of massive stars. The top photos show each region before the explosion. The bottom row shows the explosions' aftermaths.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>221</score><crdate>10/25/2007 10:18:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-25T10:18:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67867</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/67867/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mining For Molecules In The Milky Way]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists are using the giant  Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>304</score><crdate>7/7/2008 12:49:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-07T00:49:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63393</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/63393/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Telescope Sees Solar Eruption In Unprecedented Detail]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 9, the Sun erupted and blasted a bubble of hot, ionized gas into the solar system. The eruption was observed in unprecedented detail by a fleet of spacecraft, revealing new features that are predicted by computer models but difficult to see in practice. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/image_archive/2008/18/animation.mov" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VIDEO</a>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>164</score><crdate>5/27/2008 11:32:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-27T23:32:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41782</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41782/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hubble zooms in on heart of mystery comet (VIDEOS included)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a million-fold in a 24-hour period beginning October 23, 2007. VIDEOS included.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>203</score><crdate>11/16/2007 7:27:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-16T07:27:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61589</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61589/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft's much anticipated WorldWide Telescope was released today (in the past hour actually). ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I think I beat Autumn to it!]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>285</score><crdate>5/12/2008 10:51:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-12T22:51:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44542</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44542/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Lifestyles of the galaxies next door]]></title><description><![CDATA[The &quot;lifestyles&quot; of 75 neighboring galaxies are illuminated in this poster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientists say this fresh perspective of our cosmic neighborhood provides valuable insights into growth process of galaxies at a glance.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>223</score><crdate>12/17/2007 10:59:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-17T22:59:11+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>