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    The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched...
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    active telescopes. These are the 2.01 meter optical-infrared Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT), GROWTH-India telescope, Cassegrain telescope, and a High...
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    Observatory, ROSAT, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In 2012 the NuSTAR X-ray Telescope was launched which uses Wolter telescope design optics at the end...
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    A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic...
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    telescopes such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the XMM-Newton observatory. Infrared and ultraviolet are also largely blocked. Space telescopes are...
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    set up the Himalayan Chandra Telescope, a 2m gamma ray telescope at Hanle. The Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment Telescope (MACE), which is under...
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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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    1-15 keV), NASA's Swift observatory, Chandra observatory and IXPE telescope. JAXA has launched the XRISM telescope, while ISRO has launched Aditya-L1 and...
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    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...
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    Great Observatories program (category Chandra X-ray Observatory)
    launched the first imaging X-ray telescope, Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2), into orbit. Work continued on the Chandra project through the 1980s and 1990s...
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    is named after him. The asteroid 1958 Chandra is also named after Chandrasekhar. The Himalayan Chandra Telescope is named after him. In the Biographical...
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    Wolter Type-I X-ray telescope (2004+) Chandra X-ray Observatory Orbiting observatory using a Wolter X-ray telescope. (1999+) XMM-Newton Orbiting X-ray observatory...
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    AAVSO telescope to Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (1927–82) then at Nainital. The Elmer-Chandra telescope, one of the very few American telescopes in British...
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    Pillars of Creation (category Hubble Space Telescope images)
    in 2014 with a newer camera, and the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Released in 2007, Chandra X-ray Observatory (AXAF) had observed the area in 2001...
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  • Y-function Chandrasekhar's Variational Principle Chandra X-ray Observatory 1958 Chandra Himalayan Chandra Telescope "Chandrasekhar limit | White Dwarf, Neutron...
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  • reconstructed from strong and weak gravitational lensing is shown in blue, while the X-ray emitting hot gas observed with the Chandra telescope is shown in red....
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    observatories such as transportable telescopes or instrument packages. For large observatories with numerous telescopes at a single location, only a single...
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  • December 25, 2002) was an American astronomer who served as Telescope Scientist for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which was launched into space aboard the...
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    Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose CSI CIE FRS (/boʊs/; IPA: [dʒɔɡodiʃ tʃɔndro boʃu]; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology...
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    The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a...
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    billion year old collision between two galaxies". Canada France Hawaii Telescope. Archived from the original on 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2016-12-18. "News...
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    Spitzer Space Telescope. Complementing the findings were observations by the Himalayan Chandra Telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, and the Very...
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    Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (category Hubble Space Telescope images)
    Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM...
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    observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as part of the Southern MAssive Cluster Survey (SMACS), as well as Planck and Chandra. Left: image taken by HST...
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    production rates of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) as observed from Himalayan Chandra Telescope, Hanle, India". The Astronomer's Telegram. Archived from the original...
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    This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...
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    camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Other space telescopes that have obtained deep-field observations include the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the XMM-Newton...
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    "Foam":: 28 May 15". chandra.si.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-29. "Chandra X-ray Observatory - NASA's flagship X-ray telescope". chandra.si.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-29...
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  • list of large optical telescopes. For telescopes larger than 3 meters in aperture see List of largest optical reflecting telescopes. This list combines...
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  • Thumbnail for Spitzer Space Telescope
    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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