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    Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is a Southern Hemisphere-based United States Space Force telescope used for detecting, tracking, and cataloguing satellites...
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    The Gaia catalogues are star catalogues created using the results obtained by Gaia space telescope. The catalogues are released in stages that will contain...
    22 KB (2,424 words) - 08:34, 8 August 2024
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    IRAS (category Space telescopes)
    Science Archive at IPAC holds the IRAS archive. The success of IRAS led to interest in the 1985 Infrared Telescope (IRT) mission on the Space Shuttle, and the...
    18 KB (1,525 words) - 16:11, 29 August 2024
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    straylight and basic angle". Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical. Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter...
    79 KB (7,921 words) - 19:54, 6 October 2024
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    Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine...
    35 KB (3,032 words) - 17:16, 22 September 2024
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    1995). "Beyond Messier: The Caldwell Catalogue". Sky & Telescope. 90 (6): 38. Bibcode:1995S&T....90...38M. Archived from the original (subscription required)...
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    Retrieved 23 October 2013. "Last command sent to ESA's Planck space telescope". European Space Agency. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013. "A window...
    47 KB (3,043 words) - 02:55, 1 October 2024
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    survey telescope used primarily for military applications, with secondary civil applications including space debris and NEO detection and cataloguing. The...
    81 KB (8,645 words) - 17:11, 6 October 2024
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    reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image...
    33 KB (3,918 words) - 17:12, 30 September 2024
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    (September 1953). "Messier and his catalogue II". Sky & Telescope. No. 142 – via archive.org. Messier, Charles (1780). "Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des amas...
    70 KB (2,316 words) - 07:35, 13 October 2024
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    factor of two. The name of the space telescope, "Hipparcos", was an acronym for High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite, and it also reflected the name...
    59 KB (6,790 words) - 01:59, 10 October 2024
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    positioning and identifying stars satisfactory for use as guide stars by the Hubble Space Telescope program. The first version of the catalogue was produced...
    48 KB (5,507 words) - 20:54, 1 June 2024
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    including AKARI (2006-2011) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST). MSX data is currently available in the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) provided by NASA's...
    12 KB (554 words) - 15:07, 22 September 2023
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    objects) and in 1820 (5,000 objects). The resolving power of the Herschel telescopes revealed that many objects called nebulae in the Messier catalogue were...
    78 KB (8,487 words) - 11:32, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lists of planets
    more than one planet. Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescope. There are an additional 1,982 potential exoplanets from Kepler's first...
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    Murriyang, the 64 m CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope also known as "The Dish", along with two smaller radio telescopes. The 64 m dish was one of several radio...
    40 KB (3,720 words) - 18:42, 18 August 2024
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    referred to a dioptric telescope). The refracting telescope design was originally used in spyglasses and astronomical telescopes but is also used for long-focus...
    35 KB (3,717 words) - 19:03, 22 September 2024
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    Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) is a 3.9-metre equatorially mounted telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory and situated at the...
    12 KB (1,066 words) - 19:43, 29 August 2023
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    Webb's First Deep Field (category James Webb Space Telescope)
    Deep Field is the first operational image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The deep-field photograph, which covers a tiny area of sky...
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  • telescopes. The Herschel 400 contains 17 objects that are part of the Messier catalogue: The Herschel 400 catalogue pre-dates the Caldwell catalogue by...
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