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Telescope
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James Webb Space Telescope
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- Launched in - 2021.
- largest and the most powerful observatory.
- designed to conduct infrared astronomy.
- Agencies overlooking - NASA, ESA, CSA.
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Hubble Space Telescope
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- Launched in - 1990.
- Discovering dark energy, observes the cosmos in ultraviolet, visible and near infrared, from the low Earth orbit.
- Operated by - NASA and ESA.
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Chandra X-ray observatory
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- Launched in - 1999. NASA’s flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, detects X-ray emissions.
- The electrical power required to cooperate the Chandra spacecraft and instruments is very less (2KW).
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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- Launched in - 2003, NASA’s, retired in 2020.
- Spitzer made the first exoplanet weather map of temperature variations over the surface of a gas exoplanet.
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Planck Space Observatory
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- Launched in - 2009.
- ESA’s first mission to study the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the relic radiation from the Big Bang.
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Gaia
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- Launched in - 2013.
- The telescope’s extraordinarily precise three-dimensional map will provide the data needed to tackle history of our galaxy.
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Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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- Launched in - 2008.
- NASA’s telescope detects gamma rays, the most energetic form of light.
- to address questions revolving around “crushed stellar remnants like pulsars.
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TESS (Transiting Exoplant Survey Satellite)
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- Launched in - 2018 as a follow-up to Kepler, NASA’s TESS is responsible for discovering exoplanets.
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Euclid Space Telescope
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- ESA mission with critical contributions from NASA that aims to explore dark matter and dark energy.
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XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)
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- Launched in - 2023, NASA has partnering with JAXA on the XRISM mission to study celestial objects that emit X-rays.
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