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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Ritchey–Chrétien telescope
    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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