5 must know NASA telescopes that are changing space exploration
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, launched on August 25, 2003, was the first to detect light from an exoplanet
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, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25, 2021 orbits the Sun at L2 point, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory was launched on July 23, 1999, is a powerful X-ray telescope with eight times the resolution of earlier models.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, has captured stunning images up to 13.4 billion light-years away
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NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched on June 11, 2008, observes the universe’s most energetic gamma rays
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