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CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (Nasdaq Capital Market: NEXS) today reported its fourth quarter and full year 2010 results. Highlights include: Full year revenue increases 9% to $5.4 million in 2010 versus $5.0 million in 2009Sales of Array LED replacement light bulbs increase 32% to $1.8 million in 2010 versus $1.4 million in 2009Expansion of our patent portfolio to 33 patents issued and 29 patents pending, including 31 issued and 28 pending patents...

An innovative new radio telescope array under construction in central New Mexico will eventually harness the power of more than 13,000 antennas and provide a fresh eye to the sky. The antennas, which resemble droopy ceiling fans, form the Long Wavelength Array, designed to survey the sky from horizon to horizon over a wide range of frequencies.The University of New Mexico leads the project, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., provides the advanced digital electronic...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 12, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEXS), a leading supplier of commercial-grade LED lights, today reported its third quarter 2010 results. Highlights since our last quarterly report include: Revenue from continuing operations of $1.2 million for the quarter ending September 30, 2010, approximately $30,000 below comparable third quarter 2009 revenue. Year to date total revenues from continuing operations are up 14% compared to the...

Britain has officially opened the first station in a new global radio astronomy antenna network.  Dubbed LOFAR (Low Frequency Array), the European project will employ new digital techniques to simultaneously survey large portions of space.The new station in Britain joins similar installations in Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Scientists hope the new network will enable them to explore the formation of the very first stars in the universe."In traditional arrays, you have...

The SKA Program Development Office (SPDO) announced on May 11 the appointment of Mr Kobus Cloete to the role of Project Manager and Dr Minh Huynh to the role of Deputy International SKA Project Scientist. The appointments are made at a crucial stage in the finalization of the design for the world's largest radio telescope.Kobus will lead the growing international SKA development team and coordinate work on the technical design of the telescope. He gained extensive experience working in the...

On March 30 and 31 a strategic international workshop on the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will seek to identify the major economical and societal benefits of large-scale scientific research infrastructure investments.The SKA is a USD 1 billion+ international project to create a radio telescope incorporating a receiving surface of a million square meters, fifty times larger than the biggest receiving surface now in existence. This huge surface will be composed of many small antennas, divided...

VLA sees most distant object in universe, gets key physics dataAstronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the Universe -- a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB).The explosion was detected on April 23 by NASA's Swift satellite, and scientists soon realized that it was more than 13 billion light-years from Earth. It represents an...

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory took another step forward and upward, as one of its state-of-the-art antennas was carried for the first time to Chile's 16,500-foot-high plateau of Chajnantor on the back of a giant, custom-built transporter. The 40-foot-diameter antenna, weighing about 100 tons, was moved to ALMA's high-altitude Array Operations Site, where the extremely dry and rarefied air is ideal for observing the Universe.The conditions at...

New Zealand and Australia have joined each other in a bid for a massive radio telescope.Both countries announced a bid of 2.5 billion dollars (2.1 billion US) for the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope."Signing the arrangement sends a strong signal to the international community that both countries are committed to supporting SKA-related industry opportunities and promoting the relevant capabilities of Australian and New Zealand industry," New Zealand's Economic...

Europe is sending its first home-built receiver to the largest radio telescope array ever constructed, nestled in its permanent home in Chile, BBC News reported.The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (Alma) is made up of sixty six 39-foot wide antenna dishes that detect the faint signals in the sub-millimeter wavelength range to learn more about the formation of stars and galaxies.Scientists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire will assemble and test 26 of the receivers once...