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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. HH 24-26 - Wikipedia

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    An image of HH 24 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image of HH 24 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is probably the most well known image of this Herbig-Haro object. HH 24 resembles a lightsaber from the science fiction movies Star Wars and the Hubble image was published during the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. [6]

  5. Webb telescope confirms the universe is expanding at an ...

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    The Hubble and Webb data give a value averaging about 73, with a range of about 70-76. The Big Bang event 13-14 billion years ago initiated the universe, and it has been expanding ever since.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Astronomical survey - Wikipedia

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    An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky (or of the whole sky) that lacks a specific observational target. Alternatively, an astronomical survey may comprise a set of images, spectra, or other observations of objects that share a common type or feature.

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...