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Everything about the Napster partnership is classic Middelhoff. It is counterintuitive, iconoclastic and so bold as to be regarded with derision, if not anger, by some of his competitors. Bertelsmann may lack the cartoon rabbits or mice that make its competitors household brands, but under Middelhoff, it has become more...
That's not all. While each of these instruments trumps the Hale in light-gathering power, many are poised to outshine even the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been delivering astonishing snapshots of deepest space since it was refurbished in 1993. The orbiting observatory's nearly 2.5-m (8-ft...
It has also been a long time coming. Impressive as the Hale telescope was for its day, it represented a technological dead end. The Hale, like its smaller predecessors, was powered by a mirror that's essentially a huge hockey puck of glass ground into a concave, light-focusing curve...
By the early '80s, though, telescope designers were leaping all over the place. University of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel's solution to the sagging-glass problem was to cast huge mirrors that are mostly hollow, with a honeycomb-like structure inside to guarantee stiffness. University of California at Santa Cruz...
The objects Marcy looks at aren't especially faint: he and his collaborators find planets by looking for stars that wobble under the gravitational tug of unseen companions. But the wobbles are so subtle that a lesser telescope can barely detect them. "With a 10-m telescope," says Marcy, "we...