The United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) is a 3.8 metre (150 inch) infrared reflecting telescope, the second largest dedicated infrared (1 to 30...
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An infrared telescope is a telescope that uses infrared light to detect celestial bodies. Infrared light is one of several types of radiation present...
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The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea...
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the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. The major telescopes formerly operated by the JAC were: The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) - 3.8m diameter...
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The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory...
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The largest infrared telescopes for infrared astronomy are listed in terms of diameter of primary mirror. The infrared spectrum with its longer wavelength...
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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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Survey Telescope (MUST), a 6.5 m spectroscopic survey telescope. Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST), an infrared and optical solar telescope, with light-gathering...
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UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey or UKIDSS is an astronomical survey conducted using the WFCAM wide field camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on...
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Mauna Kea Observatories (section Telescopes)
Brazil NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF): NASA James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT): China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada Subaru...
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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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UK Astronomy Technology Centre (category Astronomy in the United Kingdom)
observatories in Hawaii (the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)), and a former RGO observatory, the Isaac...
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the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope WFIRST - (telescope) Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, former name of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope scheduled...
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The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation...
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IRAS (redirect from Infrared Astronomical Satellite)
night sky at infrared wavelengths. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten months. The telescope was a joint project of the United States (NASA)...
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Mid-Infrared Instrument, is an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI is a camera and a spectrograph that observes mid to long infrared radiation...
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Gillian Wright (astronomer) (section Space telescopes)
and construction of the James Webb Space Telescope as the European Principal Investigator for the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). In 2006 Wright was appointed...
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South African Astronomical Observatory (redirect from Victoria telescope)
2000. Other studies the telescope participated in include: The Indian Department of Space used this telescope for the Near Infrared Survey of the Nuclear...
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found an infrared source at the Swift position using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The initial observations taken...
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detection of infrared excess. This discovery was made with observations from the Very Large Telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope and the Spitzer...
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Biretta, J.; Geballe, T. R. (2005-09-01). "Hubble Space Telescope and United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Observations of the Center of the Trifid Nebula: Evidence...
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Ohana project (category Telescopes)
The Infrared Telescope Facility is a 3 m telescope. The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope is a 3.8 m telescope. The project's big improvement is the use...
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Herschel Space Observatory (redirect from Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope)
2009 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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is the largest single-dish telescope that operates in submillimetre wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum (far-infrared to microwave). Scientists...
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of the University of Arizona/United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Observatory. He was also a member of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph instrument...
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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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Geballe, T. R. (September 2005). "Hubble Space Telescopeand United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Observations of the Center of the Trifid Nebula: Evidence...
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Gemini Observatory (redirect from Gemini telescope)
the most advanced optical/infrared telescopes available to astronomers. (See List of largest optical reflecting telescopes). The observatory is owned...
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constellation Auriga. It was discovered in 2011 using United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT), UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), UGPS (UKIDSS Galactic...
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Paranal Observatory (section Very Large Telescope)
optical-infrared observatory in the Southern Hemisphere; worldwide, it is second to the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. The Very Large Telescope (VLT)...
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