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Hobby-Eberly 9.2 meter

Posted on April 13, 2009 | Comments Off on Hobby-Eberly 9.2 meter

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The HET at McDonald Observatory in West Texas didn’t make this Top Ten list, but it should have.

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Gamma Ray glow

Posted on March 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Gamma Ray glow

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The afterglow of the farthest Gamma Ray burst ever seen by the unaided eye–measured by the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in far West Texas, at 7.5 billion light years away.  

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