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    The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), is an infrared space telescope launched in 2003, that was deactivated...
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    A space telescope (also known as space observatory) is a telescope in outer space used to observe astronomical objects. Suggested by Lyman Spitzer in 1946...
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    Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    initially named the Advanced X-ray Astronomical Facility (AXAF). The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) observed the infrared spectrum. It was launched in 2003 aboard...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments...
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    the Spitzer Space Telescope (which covers the infrared bands). The mid-IR-to-visible band successor to the Hubble telescope is the James Webb Space Telescope...
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    idea of telescopes operating in outer space. Spitzer invented the stellarator plasma device and is the namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. As a...
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    Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (category Hubble Space Telescope images)
    the 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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    space telescopes from NASA are the Hubble Space Telescope that detects visible light, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths, the Spitzer Space Telescope...
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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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    Galactic Center comes from several recent surveys, including the Spitzer Space Telescope. Together with irregular galaxies, spiral galaxies make up approximately...
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