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  2. Visible-light astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Visible-light astronomy has existed as long as people have been looking up at the night sky, although it has since improved in its observational capabilities since the invention of the telescope, which is commonly credited to Hans Lippershey, a German-Dutch spectacle-maker, [1] although Galileo played a large role in the development and ...

  3. Great Observatories program - Wikipedia

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    Hubble can also observe at ultraviolet wavelengths which do not penetrate the atmosphere. Each observatory was designed to push the state of technology in its region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Compton was much larger than any gamma-ray instruments flown on the previous HEAO missions, opening entirely new areas of observation.

  4. Northern lights forecast for northern US, Midwest this week ...

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    The center issued geomagnetic storm watches spanning minor, moderate and strong levels, and forecasted the northern lights will be present in the sky. Last week, the center forecasted the aurora ...

  5. Hubble Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    Hubble completed 30 years of operation in April 2020 [1] and is predicted to last until 2030 to 2040. [4] Hubble is the visible light telescope in NASA's Great Observatories program; other parts of the spectrum are covered by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope (which covers the ...

  6. Auroras illuminate night skies around the world, expected to ...

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    The northern lights appear in the sky when charged particles spew from the sun during solar storms, making colorful light displays when clouds of those particles collide with Earth's magnetic ...

  7. Will there be another chance to see the northern lights in MA ...

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    The northern lights made a rare appearance in the Massachusetts sky last night, treating sky-gazers to a colorful display that usually only appears further north.. The unusual showing was due to a ...

  8. Observable universe - Wikipedia

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    Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image of a region of the observable universe (equivalent sky area size shown in bottom left corner), near the constellation Fornax. Each spot is a galaxy, consisting of billions of stars. The light from the smallest, most redshifted galaxies originated nearly 13.8 billion years ago.

  9. WorldWide Telescope - Wikipedia

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    There are over 200 full-sky images in spectral bands ranging from radio to gamma-rays There are also thousands of individual study images of various astronomical objects from space telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, COBE, WMAP, ROSAT, IRAS, GALEX as well as many ...