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Instruments of Astronomy Space Observatories. NASA’s Four Great Observatories.

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1 Instruments of Astronomy Space Observatories

2 NASA’s Four Great Observatories

3 Atmospheric Opacity

4 The Hubble Space Telescope

5 Hubble ‘Nuts & Bolts’ http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/nuts_.and._bolts/

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13 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

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17 Seven Pulsars

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20 Chandra X Ray Observatory

21 The Spacecraft

22 Science Instruments

23 Schematic of Grazing Incidence, X-Ray Mirror

24 Schematic of Grazing Incidence The mirrors have to be exquisitely shaped and aligned nearly parallel to incoming X-rays. Thus they look more like glass barrels than the familiar dish shape of optical telescopes.

25 Tracking Chandra & Hubble http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html

26 Multi Wavelength Imaging

27 The Crab Nebula X Ray/Optical

28 The Crab Nebula X Ray/Radio/Optical

29 X Ray Image

30 Optical Image

31 Infra Red Image

32 Radio Wave Image

33 W3 in Perseus - Optical

34 W3 in Perseus - X Ray

35 W3 in Perseus - Composite

36 Spitzer Space Telescope

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38 Spitzer’s Orbit

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40 Spitzer under construction

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45 http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/

46 Hubble-Spitzer Composite

47 Star Formation in DR21

48 Dust Pillars Carina Nebula

49 Cigar Galaxy M82 with Infra Red Inclusion

50 Cassiopeia Infra Red Echo

51 SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

52 MDI Continuum

53 EIT 171

54 EIT 195

55 EIT 284

56 EIT 304

57 MDI Continuum Image

58 Magnetogram Image

59 LASCO C2

60 LASCO C3

61 LASCO C3 captures Comet McNaught

62 COBE - Cosmic Background Explorer

63 Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations

64 WMAP - The Microwave Sky

65 Timeline of The Universe


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