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    The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory...
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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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  • reasons. NASA has used or supported various observatories and telescopes, and an example of this is the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. In 2013 a NASA Office...
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    astronomy. The Hubble Space Telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)...
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    Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) is a 3.8 metre (150 inch) infrared reflecting telescope, the second largest dedicated infrared (1 to 30 micrometres) telescope in...
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    The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was an 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to construct and...
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    Chile, Australia, Argentina, Brazil NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF): NASA James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT): China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan...
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  • August 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope, previously known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. In 2009, the telescope ran out of liquid...
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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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    An infrared telescope is a telescope that uses infrared light to detect celestial bodies. Infrared light is one of several types of radiation present...
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  • of the Internet NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, an infrared telescope in Hawaii Intensive Residential Treatment Facility, a facility for youth who require...
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    Survey Telescope (MUST), a 6.5 m spectroscopic survey telescope. Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST), an infrared and optical solar telescope, with light-gathering...
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    at infrared wavelengths. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten months. The telescope was a joint project of the United States (NASA), the...
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    at the Jupiter impact. Infrared observation by Keck and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at Mauna Kea showed a bright spot where the impact took...
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  • Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Chief Scientist in 1996, he was the first director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at Mauna...
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    Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) was formally designated as a mission by NASA, predicated on using one of the space telescopes. While the...
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    of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave...
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    2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. Herschel carries a 3.5-metre...
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    The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama...
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    Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United...
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    spectrum. This includes the use of infrared filters on conventional telescopes, and also the use of radio telescopes. The pioneer of amateur radio astronomy...
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    its telescope, essentially that above 11,500 ft (3,505 m). On its completion in 1970, the UH 88 in (2.2 m) was the seventh largest optical/infrared telescope...
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    Kelly Fast (category NASA people)
    the Program Scientist for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), and the Program Officer for NASA’s Yearly Opportunities for Research in Planetary...
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    the surface of Psyche. Spectra taken in October 2016 at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility at the Mauna Kea Observatories showed evidence (~3 μm absorption...
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    largest infrared telescopes European Retrievable Carrier – comparable spacecraft built by ESA, flown 1992–1993 Long Duration Exposure FacilityNASA 1984–1990...
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    Rosetta spacecraft, ESO's New Technology Telescope, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    of 0.2456 AU (36.74 million km). The comet was observed by NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in 2004, finding that the nucleus has an effective radius of...
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    2-micrometer spectroscopic study of the system using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) found no evidence for coalescing material within a...
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    The largest infrared telescopes for infrared astronomy are listed in terms of diameter of primary mirror. The infrared spectrum with its longer wavelength...
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    radio telescope and the Very Large Array (VLA). WISE J1122+25 was discovered with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and spectroscopy with the NASA Infrared...
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