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The Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Its Incredible Journey
While the Spitzer Space Telescope might have been launched in ... but the telescope’s incredibly large 6.5 meter diameter mirror will allow it to observe objects that are dimmer and farther ...
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Night Vision—Spitzer Space Telescope
Since then, instruments such as the legendary Hubble Space Telescope have proved him right. But the Spitzer telescope's infrared vision is the keenest ever, thanks to a mirror nearly three feet (0 ...
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of its historic 17-year mission
The Spitzer Space Telescope mission will soon end, and NASA is using this as an opportunity to celebrate all the success the telescope has enjoyed during its lengthy tenure in space. In a new post ...
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16 years later, NASA says goodbye to the Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA has today announced that they would be officially saying goodbye to the Spitzer Space Telescope. As a new telescope is on the brink of completion, Splitzer's time is unfortunately up.
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2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA's next cosmic imager
These are able to steer the light entering the telescope and reflecting off its 1.8-meter (5.9 feet) aluminum mirror toward the ... NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's ...
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Knot a Bad Idea: Testing BLISS Mapping for Spitzer SPACE Telescope Photometry
For the InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope, a popular way to handle this is BiLinearly-Interpolated Subpixel Sensitivity (BLISS) mapping. As part of a Markov Chain Monte Carlo ...
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Absolute Calibration of the Infrared Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope
This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope is absolutely calibrated by comparing photometry of a set of A ...