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    The Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), was a proposed infrared space telescope, follow-on to the successful Akari space observatory...
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    Space Telescope (shortened as Roman or the Roman Space Telescope, and formerly the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) is a NASA infrared...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments...
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  • Planetary Dynamics Explorer Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) Telescope for Habitable Exoplanets and Interstellar/Intergalactic...
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    in astrophysics, such as determining the rate of expansion of the universe. Space telescopes were proposed as early as 1923, and the Hubble telescope was...
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    list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave...
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    Advanced Liquid-mirror Probe of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Asteroids (ALPACA), a proposed Earth-based 8 metre telescope, by Arlin Crotts of Columbia University...
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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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  • Cosmic Vision (category European Space Agency programmes)
    being: SPICA (SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics), a far-infrared observatory; and THESEUS (Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe...
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    Astronomy (redirect from Space stuff)
    microwave background radiation, Hubble's law, and the cosmological abundances of elements. Space telescopes have enabled measurements in parts of the electromagnetic...
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    James Keeler, said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the heavenly bodies, rather than their positions or motions in space–what they are, rather...
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    refracting telescope. In the 20th century, many new types of telescopes were invented, including radio telescopes in the 1930s and infrared telescopes in the...
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    The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) was a cosmological millimeter-wave telescope located on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile. ACT...
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    Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) The Greenland Telescope Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) ASIAA has access to several observatories:...
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    (CMB) at microwave and infrared frequencies, with high sensitivity and small angular resolution. The mission was highly successful and substantially improved...
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    List of objects at Lagrange points (category Outer space lists)
    joint Russian-German high-energy astrophysics observatory Spektr-RG The joint NASA, ESA and CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) The ESA Euclid mission...
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    contributions to stellar evolution, cosmology, and high-energy astrophysics. Similarly, the telescope, and the technology developed for it, advanced the study of...
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    include the James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched in 2022 and enables investigations across many fields of astronomy and cosmology, such as observation...
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    Horizons and planetary rovers such as Perseverance; and researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the James Webb Space Telescope, the...
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    Sky & Telescope. 126 (1): 24. Bibcode:2013S&T...126a..24C. Urton, Gary (1981). At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology. Latin...
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    formation and evolution. Cosmology Physical cosmology – origin and evolution of the universe as a whole. The study of cosmology is theoretical astrophysics at...
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    included Nobel Prize-winning advances in cosmology and high energy astrophysics, the discovery of many exoplanets, and the first image of a black hole. The...
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    same infrared frequencies available to telescopes in space. Scientists will use the Giant Magellan to study nearly all aspects of astrophysics — from...
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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...
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    XRISM, ExoMars, Einstein Probe, and MMX. A contribution to SPICA (Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics), a Japanese JAXA mission, was...
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    Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    rays, X-rays, visible and ultraviolet light, and infrared light. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) primarily observes visible light and near-ultraviolet. It...
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    This is a list of lists of telescopes. List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths List of astronomical observatories List...
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    Big Bang (redirect from Big Bang cosmology)
    space, no beginning or end in time, and nothing for a Creator to do." — Carl Sagan. Belušević, Radoje (2008). Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology....
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    visible, and near infrared telescope. James Webb Space Telescope, launched in December 2021 – Joint NASA-ESA-CSA infrared space observatory mission for general...
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    as a whole. The study of cosmology is theoretical astrophysics at its largest scale. Quantum cosmology - the study of cosmology through the use of quantum...
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