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24 Sep 2013 18:39:02 UTC
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    I am a new "member." I looked over the screensaver page. I did not see anything about one of the items in SOME not all of my screensavers. It is a silver disk with lines dividing it into thirds. What is this?

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    Silver disk in graphics

    24 Sep 2013 19:08:57 UTC
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      It's a representation of the Arecibo radio telescope used to collect the raw data that's being analysed by the BRP applications.

      DCL
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      Thanks

      24 Sep 2013 21:19:16 UTC
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        Thanks

        RoboRoy
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        In addition to the "silver

        27 Nov 2013 3:13:59 UTC
        Message 118812
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          In addition to the "silver disk" (I thought it was a "grey peace symbol") I also see an unexplained "right angle" that looks just like the symbol for the LIGO at Livingston University (which is green) except this one is grey.There is no explanation for it either in the screensaver info posted at http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/starsphere.php
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          Benjamin Knispel
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          Hi, the grey L-shaped

          21 Jul 2015 9:09:18 UTC
          Message 118813 in response to message 118812
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            Hi,

            the grey L-shaped thingy in the sky next to GEO600 symbolizes the Virgo gravitational-wave detector near Pisa, Italy. That is also the reason why it is close to GEO600.

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            Benjamin

             

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