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Thursday February 9, 2012


4-5pm: Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium
(NRAO Auditorium)
"Supernova Remnants Stay in Shape"
Laura Lopez (MIT)
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APOGEE takes astronomical observations to new extremes. Pictured above is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III 2.5-m Telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, carrying out APOGEE near infrared spectroscopic observations of the Galactic bulge -- about 60 degrees from the zenith, over El Paso, Texas lights, and with a full moon nearby.
Photo taken by APOGEE PI Steve Majewski.

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