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    The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is a spectrograph, also with a camera mode, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Aerospace engineer...
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    The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS or HRS) was an ultraviolet spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during its original construction...
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    Spectrometer (NICMOS; 1997–present, hibernating since 2008) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS; 1997–present (non-operative 2004–2009)) Wide Field...
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    Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in 1997...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with...
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    "X-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 536: A105. arXiv:1110.1944...
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    STS-82 (category Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions)
    Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph and the Faint Object Spectrograph, exchanged for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared...
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  • wavelength of λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . For example, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) can distinguish features 0.17 nm apart at a wavelength...
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    Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), also called Explorer 94 and SMEX-12, is a NASA solar observation satellite. The mission was funded through...
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    The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations...
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    Advanced Camera for Surveys (category Hubble Space Telescope instruments)
    6"×30.0". The ACS SBC is in fact a flight spare from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). On 25 June 2006 ACS suffered an electronic failure...
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    operated as an integral field spectrograph, combining spatial and spectral resolution. The imaging camera was able to image simultaneously in two bands...
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    were all made with spectrographs that used photographic paper. James Webb Space Telescope contains both a near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) and a mid-infrared...
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  • This is a list of images released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's anniversaries. They celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit...
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    The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), was an infrared space telescope launched in 2003, that was deactivated...
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    Pillars of Creation (category Hubble Space Telescope images)
    Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that depicts elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula...
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    Keck I telescope. ESI The Echellette Spectrograph and Imager is a high-resolution spectrograph for optical wavelengths, also featuring imaging capabilities...
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    Wide Field Camera 3 (category Hubble Space Telescope instruments)
    Multi-Object Spectrometer Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Other space telescopes and their instruments : Spitzer Space Telescope (Great Observatory for...
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    The Apollo Telescope Mount, or ATM, was a crewed solar observatory that was a part of Skylab, the first American space station. It could observe the Sun...
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    Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (category Hubble Space Telescope instruments)
    Resolution Spectrograph Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph – Instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope Hubble...
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    mid-infrared imager and spectrograph. MICADO: The Multi-AO (adaptive optics) Imaging Camera for Deep Observations (MICADO) will be the first dedicated imaging camera...
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    approximately 10 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope and four times greater than the James Webb Space Telescope. However, it will not be able to observe...
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    the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) (Chinese: 巡天空间望远镜; pinyin: Xúntiān Kōngjiān Wàngyuǎnjìng) is a planned Chinese space telescope currently under...
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    Messier 87 (category Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images)
    2013). "The M87 black hole mass from gas-dynamical models of Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph observations". The Astrophysical Journal. 770 (2): 86. arXiv:1304...
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    Uranus' Rotation Rate with Unprecedented Precision". NASA Hubble Space Telescope imaging team. 9 April 2025. Retrieved 9 April 2025. Gierasch, Peter J....
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  • Hubble (film) (category Hubble Space Telescope)
    a 2010 American documentary film about Space Shuttle missions to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. It is narrated by the actor Leonardo DiCaprio...
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    reflecting telescopes are ubiquitous on space telescopes and many types of spacecraft imaging devices. A curved primary mirror is the reflector telescope's basic...
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  • Thumbnail for List of space telescopes
    This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...
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    CHARIS, an integral field spectrograph, around 2016. In 2024, in collaboration with the TESS space telescope, the Subaru telescope discovered planet Gliese...
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    mid-infrared spectrometer. The ESPaDOnS spectrograph situated in the basement of the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is also being used as a "visitor...
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