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What Are Astronomers Doing?
Aluminization	Clean Mirrors for the Smith Telescope Have you ever cleaned the spots of toothpaste from your bathroom mirror? Maybe every so often you bring out your Windex and paper towel to clean it to see your smiling face again. Telescope mirrors also need cleaning occasionally, but not with Windex and paper towels. More »

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Searching for Asteroid Threats	NASA Astronomer of the Week: John Kormendy	Krypton, Selenium, and Xenon, oh my!
Working a Galactic Jigsaw with HET

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This program is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant AST 0227870. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

National Science Foundation The "NASA Astronomer of the Week" profile is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under an Education and Public Outreach supplement to Grant/Contract/Agreement No. NAG5-13057 issued through the Office of Space Science.