OnStar announced that its partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) will be expanded to provide geographically targeted AMBER Alert messages to OnStar subscribers. In addition to this technological advancement, OnStar will contribute $300,000 to NCMEC to support Team Adam, a dedicated group of retired law enforcement officials with expertise in missing children cases.
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Numerous astronomical results have been obtained thanks to AMBER, the instrument which equips the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). AMBER (Astronomical Multi-BEam Recombiner) makes it possible to combine the beams of three of the four 8-metre VLT telescopes.
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The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, which allows astronomers to scrutinise objects with a precision equivalent to that of a 130-m telescope, is proving itself an unequalled success every day. One of the latest instruments installed, AMBER, has led to a flurry of scientific results, an anthology of which is being published this week as special features in the research journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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