WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is an open-source set of applications, data and cloud services, originally created by Microsoft Research but now an open source...
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Grace Roman Space Telescope (shortened as Roman or the Roman Space Telescope, and formerly the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) is a NASA...
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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama...
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both to observe distant objects – an optical telescope. Nowadays, the word "telescope" is defined as a wide range of instruments capable of detecting different...
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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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Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), MSBuild, NuGet, Orchard CMS and WorldWide Telescope. Many of these projects are also listed under Outercurve Foundation...
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Bibcode:2003RMxAC..15...29O. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ring Nebula. WorldWide Telescope M57 (The Ring Nebula) M57 Calar Alto Observatory Messier 57 SEDS...
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Subaru Telescope (すばる望遠鏡, Subaru Bōenkyō) is the 8.2-metre (320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea...
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A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image...
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Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang...
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An optical telescope is a telescope that gathers and focuses light mainly from the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, to create a magnified...
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the...
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A refracting telescope (also called a refractor) is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image (also referred to a...
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2024-12-18. "wwt-windows-client/WWTExplorer3d/CHANGELOG.md at release · WorldWideTelescope/wwt-windows-client". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-12-18. "SkySafari 7 Pro...
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Schmidt camera (redirect from Schmidt telescope)
also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with limited aberrations...
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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based, extremely large telescope currently under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama...
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elderly mother suffering from dementia in Wisconsin. Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope software was dedicated to Gray. In 2008, Microsoft Research opened...
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teaches geography to children Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series WorldWide Telescope - a freeware from Microsoft TeachAids Encyclopedia Encarta Timeline...
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Telescopes with aperture diameter >8 metres This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of 3.0 metres (120 in) or greater...
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collaboration. Other programs similar to Google Sky include Microsoft WorldWide Telescope and Stellarium. Google Mars is an application within Google Earth...
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Planetarium Google Sky KStars Stellarium SKY-MAP.ORG SkyMap Online WorldWide Telescope XEphem, for Unix-like systems Stellarmap.com – online map of the...
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Mac, Win, Linux Yes Free NASA (JWST), NSF http://glueviz.org Yes WorldWide Telescope Pro/Am GUI Yes Displays TOAST No Limited Limited (histograms) Browser...
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory (redirect from Large Synoptic Survey Telescope)
The Rubin Observatory will house the Simonyi Survey Telescope, a wide-field reflecting telescope with an 8.4-meter primary mirror that will photograph...
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The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a 4.20-metre (165 in) optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...
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W. M. Keck Observatory (redirect from Keck telescope)
observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes have 10 m (33 ft)...
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Clark, Liat (April 30, 2014). "Child abuse-tracking tech donated to the world". Wired UK. "Microsoft's response to the consultation on the European Commission...
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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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Dark Atmospheres Photography – Iris Nebula NGC 7023 See NGC 7023 in WorldWide Telescope Iris Nebula on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray...
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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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