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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ( TESS) is a space telescope for NASA 's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. [6] It was launched on 18 April 2018, atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle and was ...
ISBN. 9780806513508. OCLC. 644066940. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most ...
NASA: 20 Nov 2004 — Earth orbit (585–604 km) Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini Leggero (AGILE) ISA: 23 Apr 2007: 18 Jan 2024: Earth orbit (524–553 km) Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: NASA: 11 Jun 2008 — Earth orbit (555 km) Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter (IKAROS) JAXA: 21 May 2010: 21 May 2015: Heliocentric orbit
NASA 's series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes launched between 1990 and 2003. They were built with different technology to examine specific wavelength/energy regions of the electromagnetic spectrum: gamma rays, X-rays, visible and ultraviolet light, and infrared light .
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 high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. [10] This enables investigations across many fields of ...
Will Dunham. July 12, 2024 at 1:42 PM. By Will Dunham. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA released on Friday a pair of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing two galaxies - one nicknamed ...
W. M. Keck Observatory. Subaru Telescope. Hobby–Eberly Telescope. Large Binocular Telescope. Very Large Telescope. Southern African Large Telescope. Gemini Observatory. Gemini Observatory. This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of 3.0 metres (120 in) or greater is sorted by aperture, which is a measure ...
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) is a deactivated NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. [ 2][ 3][ 4] WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters. Its observations also supported the discovery of the first Y ...