• Thumbnail for Joint Dark Energy Mission
    Lagrange point. The expected cost is around US$1.6 billion. The Dark Energy Space Telescope (Destiny), was a planned project by NASA and DOE, designed to...
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    Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (shortened as Roman or the Roman Space Telescope, and formerly the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) is a...
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    The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a space telescope being mainly used to perform high precision observations of electrons and gamma rays....
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    understand dark energy and dark matter by accurately measuring the accelerating expansion of the universe. To achieve this, the Korsch-type telescope will measure...
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    The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being used...
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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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  • (sub-orbital version) Space-based Large Balloon Reflector (LBR) TeraHertz Space Telescope (TST) Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (ATHENA)...
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  • Thumbnail for List of space telescopes
    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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    X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999...
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    dominates the universe's mass–energy content because it is uniform across space. The first observational evidence for dark energy's existence came from measurements...
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    the VLT Survey Telescope (2015) DM map by the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey (HSCS) using the Subaru Telescope (2018) DM map by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using...
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    the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) (Chinese: 巡天空间望远镜; pinyin: Xúntiān Kōngjiān Wàngyuǎnjìng) is a planned Chinese space telescope currently under...
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    Together they integrate the MAGIC telescope stereoscopic system. MAGIC is sensitive to cosmic gamma rays with photon energies between 50 GeV (later lowered...
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    to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. Herschel carries a 3.5-metre...
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    in-orbit telescope to utilize the lobster-eye imaging technology of ultra-large field of view imaging to search for dark matter signals in the x-ray energy range...
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  • space telescope Dark Universe Explorer (DUNE), an ESA space telescope Dark Universe (novel), a 1961 science fiction novel by Daniel F. Galouye Dark Universe...
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    completion of its repairs related to the main mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing for sharper images and, consequently, more accurate analyses...
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    of dark matter by mapping and cataloging billions of galaxies through space and time. The telescope itself is named the Simonyi Survey Telescope, after...
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  • Thumbnail for Dark Energy Survey
    short for the Dark Energy Camera, is a large camera built to replace the previous prime focus camera on the Victor M. Blanco Telescope. The camera consists...
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  • planned space mission to asteroid 3200 Phaethon Dark Energy Space Telescope (Destiny), a planned project by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed...
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  • Thumbnail for 2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA
    Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA was the declassification and donation to NASA of two identical space telescopes by the United States...
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  • Thumbnail for Michael Lampton
    of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Lampton was heavily involved with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument...
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    systematically develop more dark sky areas with the mandatory lighting restrictions. The Observatory has several active telescopes. These are the 2.01-meter...
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    Observatory, the XMM-Newton Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope. Left: image taken by Hubble (2017) vs Right: the...
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    approximately 10 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope and four times greater than the James Webb Space Telescope. However, it will not be able to observe...
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    of "dark energy", an unknown form of energy that is hypothesized to permeate space. On a mass–energy equivalence basis, the density of dark energy (~ 7...
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  • Thumbnail for Baryon acoustic oscillations
    provide further insight into the nature of dark energy. Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey BINGO (telescope) Euclid (spacecraft) Perlmutter, S.; et al...
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  • Beyond Einstein program (category Space program of the United States stubs)
    Superseded by the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope) Dark Energy Space Telescope (Destiny) - no longer under study. Superseded...
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    Spektr-RG (category Space telescopes)
    Russian–German high-energy astrophysics space observatory which was launched on 13 July 2019. It follows on from the Spektr-R satellite telescope launched in...
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  • Launch Center. It is China's first space observatory. DAMPE is a space telescope used for the detection of high energy gamma rays, electrons and cosmic...
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