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  • Radio Telescopes. Near Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. (1997)
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  • Lick Observatory. Telescope dome at sunset at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California, USA. Completed in 1888 at an altitude of 1280 meters, the Lick Observatory was the world's first permanent mountaintop observatory. Its location provided excellent viewing conditions for years until light pollution from the nearby city of San Jose began to interfere with results. In 1997 the observatory is operated by California University. (1999)
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  • This is the "iodine cell," a device developed and perfected by Butler, Marcy, and instrument specialist Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz. When light from a star passes through the iodine, molecules in the hot vapor absorb parts of the light at very specific energies. Then, a specially etched slab of glass spreads the starlight into a glorious rainbow spectrum?like a prism held up to the sun, but with exquisitely fine detail. Because the iodine has subtracted bits of the light, a forest of dark black lines covers the spectrum like a long supermarket bar code. "It's like holding the star up to a piece of graph paper," McCarthy says. "The iodine lines never move. So if the star moves, we use the iodine lines as a ruler against which to measure that motion."  Iodine cell.  Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
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  • The roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with a 14 inch telescope. The University Campanile is in the background. Geoff Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_060516_122_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory. Time exposure image showing star trails over a telescope dome at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California, USA. In the foreground are trails from red taillights of a car. Astronomers often carry red flashlights so that their night vision is not affected. Completed in 1888 at an altitude of 1280 meters, Lick was the world's first permanent mountaintop observatory. Its location provided excellent viewing conditions for years until light pollution from the nearby city of San Jose began to interfere with results. In 1997 the observatory is operated by California University. Star trails are caused by what seems to be the motion of the stars due to the rotation of the Earth about its axis.
    USA_SCI_ASTR_01_120_xs.jpg
  • This is the "iodine cell," a device developed and perfected by Butler, Marcy, and instrument specialist Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz. When light from a star passes through the iodine, molecules in the hot vapor absorb parts of the light at very specific energies. Then, a specially etched slab of glass spreads the starlight into a glorious rainbow spectrum?like a prism held up to the sun, but with exquisitely fine detail. Because the iodine has subtracted bits of the light, a forest of dark black lines covers the spectrum like a long supermarket bar code. "It's like holding the star up to a piece of graph paper," McCarthy says. "The iodine lines never move. So if the star moves, we use the iodine lines as a ruler against which to measure that motion."  Iodine cell.  Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_Lick_060513_032_B_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory. Time exposure image showing star trails over a telescope dome at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California, USA. In the foreground are trails from red flashlights carried by astronomers so that their night vision is not affected. Completed in 1888 at an altitude of 1280 meters, Lick was the world's first permanent mountaintop observatory. Its location provided excellent viewing conditions for years until light pollution from the nearby city of San Jose began to interfere with results. In 1997 the observatory is operated by California University. Star trails are caused by what seems to be the motion of the stars due to the rotation of the Earth about its axis. (1996)
    USA_SCI_ASTR_01_xs.jpg
  • Jill Tarter. Portrait of Jill Tarter (1944-), American astrophysicist and SETI researcher with a princess phone at a radiotelescope at Stanford, CA. Palo Alto, California. (1988)
    USA_SCI_RT_14_xs.jpg
  • Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. (1983)
    USA_SCI_RT_04_xs.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope.
    USA_Lick_060513_263_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Chris McCarthy, astronomer.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_072_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_060516_165_rwx.jpg
  • Parkes radio telescope. The huge dish of the radio telescope at the Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. The dish is 64 meters (210 feet) in diameter and is fully steer-able. It was completed in 1961, and can be used to record a range of wavelengths from 5 millimeters to 2 centimeters. (1989)
    AUS_SCI_RT_01_xs.jpg
  • Inside the control room of a 25-meter diameter dish which makes up the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is the world's largest radio telescope array, consisting of 27 dish antennae, each one 25 meters in diameter. The dishes can be moved to various positions along the arms of a Y-shaped railway network; two of these railway arms are 21 km in length, the third 19 km. The data obtained by the dishes are combined by computer to form a single radio image, so that the 27 antennae in effect form one single giant radio dish. (1984). Radio Telescope. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1988)
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  • Engineers on a radio antenna under construction with rainbow on the distance. The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a system of 10 radio telescopes controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico. The antennas are spread across the United States from St. Croix in the Virgin Islands to Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii, making it the world's largest dedicated, full-time astronomical instrument..This antenna at Pie Town, New Mexico, is now linked with the Very Large Array via fiber optics. It is the first part of the planned Expanded Very Large Array...(1988)
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  • Jill Tarter. Portrait of Jill Tarter (1944-), American astrophysicist and SETI researcher with a radiotelescope at Stanford, CA. Palo Alto, California. MODEL RELEASED (1988)
    USA_SCI_RT_13_xs.jpg
  • View of some of the dish antennae which make up the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is the world's largest radio telescope array, consisting of 27 dish antennae, each one 25 meters in diameter. The dishes can be moved to various positions along the arms of a Y-shaped railway network; two of these railway arms are 21 km in length, the third 19 km. The data obtained by the dishes are combined by computer to form a single radio image, so that the 27 antennae in effect form one single giant radio dish. (1984)
    USA_SCI_RT_10_xs.jpg
  • View of some of the dish antennae which make up the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is the world's largest radio telescope array, consisting of 27 dish antennae, each one 25 meters in diameter. The dishes can be moved to various positions along the arms of a Y-shaped railway network; two of these railway arms are 21 km in length, the third 19 km. The data obtained by the dishes are combined by computer to form a single radio image, so that the 27 antennae in effect form one single giant radio dish. (1984)
    USA_SCI_RT_09_xs.jpg
  • View of some of the dish antennae which make up the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is the world's largest radio telescope array, consisting of 27 dish antennae, each one 25 meters in diameter. The dishes can be moved to various positions along the arms of a Y-shaped railway network; two of these railway arms are 21 km in length, the third 19 km. The data obtained by the dishes are combined by computer to form a single radio image, so that the 27 antennae in effect form one single giant radio dish. (1984)
    USA_SCI_RT_08_xs.jpg
  • View of some of the dish antennae which make up the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is the world's largest radio telescope array, consisting of 27 dish antennae, each one 25 meters in diameter. The dishes can be moved to various positions along the arms of a Y-shaped railway network; two of these railway arms are 21 km in length, the third 19 km. The data obtained by the dishes are combined by computer to form a single radio image, so that the 27 antennae in effect form one single giant radio dish. (1984).
    USA_SCI_RT_07_xs.jpg
  • Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. (1983)
    USA_SCI_RT_05_xs.jpg
  • Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. Time exposure shows the rotation of the earth (the light from stars are recorded as curved steaks). (1983)
    USA_SCI_RT_02_xs.jpg
  • Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. (1983)
    USA_SCI_RT_01_xs.jpg
  • .COMPOSITE PHOTO. Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope. THIS IMAGE COMBINES TWO DIFFERENT EXPOSURES OF THE TELESCOPE AND DOME IN THE BACKGROUND. SEE 263 AND 268 FOR ORIGINAL IMAGES.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lickcomb_060513_263_268_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California.  Computer screen during Chris McCarthy's night long search for other planets. This shows the spectrum of a start (eschelle spectrum) from 61 Virginis. Spectral lines will move if the star has a planet?this is the motion that they are trying to detect. The sensitivity needs to read 1/1000 of a pixel. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Telescope operator, Bernie Walp, aims the 120-inch telescope at star HR3982, Rugulus, the brightest star in the Constellation Leo.
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Telescope operator, Bernie Walp, aims the 120-inch telescope at star HR3982, Rugulus, the brightest star in the Constellation Leo.
    USA_Lick_060513_228_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_205_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_201_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_195_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_194_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_176_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.
    USA_Lick_060513_159_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_103_rwx.jpg
  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_087_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Chris McCarthy, astronomer.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_079_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Chris McCarthy, astronomer.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_048_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_060516_175_rwx.jpg
  • The roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with a 14 inch telescope in the foreground.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_060516_135_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_060516_107_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_092_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_091_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_080_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_072_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy above the lights of the UC Berkeley Campus surrounded by light trails representing swooping eccentric orbits of exoplanets. Unlike the planets of our solar system, the orbits of most of the exoplanets Marcy and his team have discovered are squashed into shapes more like ovals, footballs, and cigars.
    USA_060516_044_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy above the lights of the UC Berkeley Campus surrounded by light trails representing swooping eccentric orbits of exoplanets. Unlike the planets of our solar system, the orbits of most of the exoplanets Marcy and his team have discovered are squashed into shapes more like ovals, footballs, and cigars.
    USA_060516_040_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy above the lights of the UC Berkeley Campus surrounded by light trails representing swooping eccentric orbits of exoplanets. Unlike the planets of our solar system, the orbits of most of the exoplanets Marcy and his team have discovered are squashed into shapes more like ovals, footballs, and cigars.
    USA_060516_032_xrw.jpg
  • Parkes radio telescope. The huge dish of the radio telescope at the Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. The dish is 64 meters (210 feet) in diameter and is fully steer-able. It was completed in 1961, and can be used to record a range of wavelengths from 5 millimeters to 2 centimeters. (1989)
    AUS_SCI_RT_02_xs.jpg
  • View of some of the dish antennae which make up the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is the world's largest radio telescope array, consisting of 27 dish antennae, each one 25 meters in diameter. The dishes can be moved to various positions along the arms of a Y-shaped railway network; two of these railway arms are 21 km in length, the third 19 km. The data obtained by the dishes are combined by computer to form a single radio image, so that the 27 antennae in effect form one single giant radio dish. (1984)
    USA_SCI_RT_11_xs.jpg
  • Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. (1983)
    USA_SCI_RT_06_xs.jpg
  • USA_SCI_RT_03_xs .Photo illustration:.Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex with 6 exposures of the eclipse of the moon. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. (1983)
    USA_SCI_RT_03_xs.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_268_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope
    USA_Lick_060513_259_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Telescope operator, Bernie Walp, aims the 120-inch telescope at star HR3982, Rugulus, the brightest star in the Constellation Leo.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_237_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_179_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_174_rwx.jpg
  • View of San Jose and Silicon Valley from the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California.
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_022_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_082_rwx.jpg
  • .COMPOSITE PHOTO. Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope. THIS IMAGE COMBINES TWO DIFFERENT EXPOSURES OF THE TELESCOPE AND DOME IN THE BACKGROUND. SEE 268 AND 263 FOR ORIGINAL IMAGES.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lickcomb_060513_263_rwx.jpg
  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_107_rwx.jpg
  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_094_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy above the lights of the UC Berkeley Campus surrounded by light trails representing swooping eccentric orbits of exoplanets. Unlike the planets of our solar system, the orbits of most of the exoplanets Marcy and his team have discovered are squashed into shapes more like ovals, footballs, and cigars.
    USA_060516_037_xrw.jpg
  • Marvin Minsky (born 1927), pioneering US computer and artificial intelligence scientist. Minsky studied at Harvard University before embarking on a distinguished career in artificial intelligence and robotics. In 1951 he designed and built with another colleague the first neural network-learning machine, modeled on human brain cells. He later founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and in 1985 co-founded MIT's Media Lab, where he now works as Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction, and inventor of the con- focal scanning microscope. MODEL RELEASED (1994)
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  • Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT); Cambridge, Massachusettes (MIT)
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  • Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT); Cambridge, Massachusettes (MIT)
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  • The Media Lab building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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  • William J. Mitchell, Head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture attending a round table talk at the Berkeley, California home of John Gage, Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. MODEL RELEASED (1998)
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  • The Counter Intelligence program at MIT Media Lab in Boston, Massachusetts is focusing on developing a digitally connected kitchen of the future. By exploring new technologies they hope to expand the art of food preparation as well as social interactions in the kitchen. One aspect of their research is to create kitchen utensils that contain memories. In this image a digital scale helps to measure out meals.  Scale built into countertop. While the project is ongoing, these images were shot in 1999. (1999)
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  • TV of tomorrow. Long-exposure photograph of a TV monitor being wheeled through a corridor in the MIT Media Lab. The monitor on the left shows researcher Andrew Lippmann. Set up in 1985 at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Media Lab aims to invent the multimedia technologies of the future. According to Lippmann and colleagues, tomorrow's TVs will combine computer technology with digital transmission to create an interactive system that could make conventional print and broadcast media redundant. Wall-sized 3-D screens that respond to the human voice could offer millions of TV channels, personalized news and interactive dramas.  (1995)
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  • Students listening for ultrasonic acoustic emissions from a grape vine at UC Davis, California. (1986) Viticulture/Oenology MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • at Notre Dame, Indiana home football game
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  • Chicago's elevated train, called "the El" by Chicagoans, in downtown Chicago, IL, USA.
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  • Future kitchen. Professor Mike Hawley (middle) and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in the 'kitchen of the future' prototype. Here, one of Hawley's colleagues (at left) is holding a 'digital nose' device. This analyses smells from the bowl's contents. It then tells the user (via the computer at centre right) how fresh the food is and suggests further ingredients. This is all part of MIT's Counter Intelligence project which includes using computers in food preparation and laying the table, as well as the inclusion of computer-simulated dinner guests. MODEL RELEASED. (1999)
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  • Communicating with computers.  Richard Bolt.  Bolt is working on multi-modal interaction using speech, gesture, and gaze.  He is attempting to program computers to interact with their users by non-standard (keyboard, mouse) methods.  Using off the shelf hardware (cyber gloves, head-mounted eye-tracking gear, and magnetic space sensing cubes that are sewn into clothing), he and his students are creating systems whereby a user would not have to be skilled to interact with a computer.  He wants, "normal interaction with the machine--like you would with a human.  This will open the information highway to the world that cannot use computers."  His view of the future includes large screens, flat wall, or holographic screens which "spread-out information in space, like the real world." MODEL RELEASED.(1994)
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  • The Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Counter Intelligence program at MIT Media Lab in Boston, Massachusetts is focusing on developing a digitally connected kitchen of the future. By exploring new technologies they hope to expand the art of food preparation as well as social interactions in the kitchen. One aspect of their research is to create kitchen utensils that contain memories. In this image a digital nose sniffs a handful of garlic. While the project is ongoing, these images were shot in 1999. Mat Gray (Model Released) with digital nose, which detects aromas and smells. (1999)
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  • Massachusetts's Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge Massachusetts. MIT Media Laboratory: Glorianna Davenport.  Davenport is working on interactive cinema and TV.  She is in an editing room surrounded by images from various sources.  She believes the future of news is "an electronic personal storyteller that knows both you and the information personally.  The story is being told to you, for you."  She wants to have a "media bank," a collection of opinions and different points of view that can be accessed through video. MODEL RELEASED (1994).
    USA_SCI_MIT_02_120_xs.jpg
  • Future kitchen. Professor Mike Hawley (middle) and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in the 'kitchen of the future' prototype. Here, one of Hawley's colleagues (at left) is holding a 'digital nose' device. This analyses smells from the bowl's contents. It then tells the user (via the computer at center right) how fresh the food is and suggests further ingredients. This is all part of MIT's Counter Intelligence project which includes using computers in food preparation and laying the table, as well as the inclusion of computer-simulated dinner guests. MODEL RELEASED. (1999)
    USA_SCI_MIT_06_120_xs.jpg
  • Walter Bender.  News in the Future.  "The message is the message--especially when the message is news."  Bender is working on "salient stills":  A still image of a video sequence that tells the story in one picture. MODEL RELEASED(1994)
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  • New Age meditation technology. Randy Adamadama (owner of Universe of You,) Brain Tune-Up Studio at the Universe of You clinic, Marin County, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. The most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in the city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also known as the 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.
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  • Dashashwamedh Ghat is the most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also called as 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.  Early morning.  Varanasi, India..
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  • New Age meditation technology. Customers relaxing during a 'brain tune-up' session at the Universe of You clinic. Each customer is wearing a Synchro-Energiser. This projects patterns of colored lights into the eyes, and plays the sound of ocean waves into the ears. It is claimed that this helps the wearer to achieve a meditative state, from, which they enjoy deep mental and physical relaxation. Further claims for long-term use of the system include increased creativity, improved memory and improvements in problem- solving and decision-making abilities. A session lasts for 45 minutes. The clinic is in Corte Madera, California. [1988].
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. The most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in the city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also known as the 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.
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  • Utilizing the research results of University of California biologist Robert Full, Martin Buehler of McGill University and Daniel E. Koditschek of the University of Michigan seized upon when they created RHex (controlled by graduate student Uluç Saranli). Tested in a laboratory (at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) dominated by an antique poster for Isaac Asimov's book, I, Robot, RHex could become a "companion robot," Buehler says, following its owner around like a friendly mechanical shadow. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 97.
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  • Atsuo Takanishi of the Humanoid Research Laboratory, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, conversing with writer Faith D'Aluisio at his university laboratory. One of the leading researchers at Japan's Waseda University's long-term robotics project, mechanical engineer Atsuo Takanishi studied under the late Ichiro Kato, a robotics pioneer, and superb fundraiser, who made the school into the epicenter of the field. Continuing Kato's emphasis on "biomechatronics", replicating the functions of animals with machines, Takanishi now supervises the research group that produced WABIAN-RII (behind him in photograph). From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 18.
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  • The product of a long quest, Robot III, an artificial cockroach built by mechanical engineer Roger Quinn (in blue shirt) and biologist Roy Ritzmann at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, required seven years to construct. (Quinn directs the Biorobotics Lab at the university.) From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 102-103.
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  • Micro Technology: University of California, Berkeley: Computer room in Soda Hall. Professor Randy H. Katz. Randy Katz is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was instrumental in the development of the RAID concept for computer storage.. Model Released. [2000]
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  • Human Genome Project: Columbia University. Charles R. Cantor. Charles Cantor, American biologist, photographed in a laboratory at Columbia University, New York, in May 1989. Cantor's area of research is human genetics. With colleagues at Columbia, he has contributed to work on the human genome project, an ambitious plant to construct a complete biochemical document detailing every gene expressed on each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. MODEL RELEASED (1989).
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  • Human Genome Project: Columbia University. Charles Cantor, American biologist, photographed in a laboratory at Columbia University, New York, in May 1989. Cantor's area of research is human genetics. With colleagues at Columbia, he has contributed to work on the human genome project, an ambitious plant to construct a complete biochemical document detailing every gene expressed on each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. MODEL RELEASED (1989).
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  • A "smart" pallet that can move in any direction, OmniMate was designed by Johann Borenstein, a research scientists at the University of Michigan. Like the HelpMate hospital delivery robot, OmniMate sits on robotic platforms called LabMates. Although earlier robot pallets had to move along cables buried in the floor, OmniMate can track its own location by measuring its movements precisely. Borenstein is in the process of putting his robot on the market. At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 189.
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  • Virtual Reality: Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina. Henry Fuchs is a pioneer in the development of virtual reality. He has worked with 3D biomedical imaging and graphics since 1969 and with head-mounted displays since 1970. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1978. At present, he is predominantly involved in the field of virtual reality in medicine through his work in ultrasound-guided, head-mounted displays, and in telecollaboration as part of the National Tele- immersion Initiative. (1990)
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. A technician checking Perspex plates at the IMB Proton Decay Experiment site. The IMB Project is named after the sponsoring institutions, University of California at Irvine, University of Michigan and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The experiment consists of a 60-foot deep tank filled with 8,000 tons of purified water, dug into the Morton-Thiokol salt mine at Painesville, Ohio, some 2,000 feet underground. The proton decay event will be detected by an array of 2,048 photomultipliers that line the tank. Proton decay is essential in most Grand Unified Theories of the fundamental forces, but to date no firm evidence of the decay has been found.
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  • Physics: British theoretical physicist Professor Peter Higgs in his University office in Edinburgh, Scotland (b. 1929). In 1964, Higgs predicted the existence of a new type of fundamental particle, commonly called the Higgs boson. This particle is required by many of the current Grand Unified Theories (or GUTs), which hope to explain three of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, the weak & the strong nuclear forces) in a single unified theory. The Higgs boson is yet to be detected experimentally, but it is one of the main challenges of high-energy particle accelerators now being built. Higgs is professor of theoretical physics at Edinburgh University. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Human Genome Project: Columbia University. Charles Cantor, American biologist, photographed in a laboratory at Columbia University, New York, in May 1989. Cantor's area of research is human genetics. With colleagues at Columbia, he has contributed to work on the human genome project, an ambitious plant to construct a complete biochemical document detailing every gene expressed on each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. MODEL RELEASED (1989).
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  • Tokyo, Japan. Retrospective photo exhibit titled “Evolution of Visual Ideas” displays work from all of Menzel & D’Aluisio’s books at the University of Agriculture.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, her husband Nasrullah, 51, and their daughter Nabeela, 23 with their typical week's worth of food in June. Their son, R. Shan, is studying at a distant university in Norway (photo on wall). Food Expenditure for one week: 2,002.48 Norwegian Kroner; $343.48 USD. Model-Released.
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  • Seattle, WA. University of Washington.
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