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Chinas space station Tiangong passes over eastern Japan at 510 pm on December 3 2022 in Ota Ward Tokyo Japan (photo by Koichiro Tezuka enlarg
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SOFIA airborne observatory telescope cradled in its framework inside the telescope cavity in the SOFIA aircraft during its test flight phase SOFIA i
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Ultima Thule This astronomical body (also known as MU69) is the most distant object visited by human spacecraft with the flyby of NASAs New Horizon
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This artists concept appeared on the Feb 23 2017 cover of the journal Nature announcing that the TRAPPIST-1 star an ultra-cool dwarf has seven Ea
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TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system Illustration of two of the Earth-sized exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system transiting their parent star The planets (TRA
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152-metre telescope La Silla Observatory Chile
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Comet ISON (C2012 S1) as observed on 30th April 2013 by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) This comet was discovered on 21 September 2012 by the Inte
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Comet ISON (C2012 S1) as observed on 9th October 2013 by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) This comet was discovered on 21 September 2012 by the Int
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Comet ISON (C2012 S1) as observed on 10 April 2013 by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) This comet was discovered on 21 September 2012 by the Intern
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Comet ISON (C2012 S1) as observed on 10 April 2013 by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) This comet was discovered on 21 September 2012 by the Intern
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Danish 154-metre telescope at night Chile
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet C2012 S1 (ISON) was photographed on April 10 when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiters orbit
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This is a contrast-enhanced image produced from the Hubble images of Comet C2012 S1 (ISON) to reveal the subtle structure in the inner coma of the co
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet C2012 S1 (ISON) was photographed on April 10 when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiters orbit
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Sir Bernard Lovell View of Sir Bernard Lovell (born 1913) in front of his telescope at Jodrell Bank near Manchester England After a wartime career
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Jodrell Bank Historic photograph of Bernard Lovell (left leaning on table) with JG Davies in the control room of the 250 foot (76 metre) diameter
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Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell (born 1913) photographed in the control room of the radio observatory which he founded made famous at Jodrell Bank n
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Night-time view of the floodlit 250 foot (76 metre) diameter dish of the Mark 1A radio telescope near Manchester England The dish reflects focuses
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Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank The dish of the Lovell Radio Telescope dominates the horizon at the Jodrell Bank Observatory The telescope di
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MPG-ESO 22-metre telescope at night Chile
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Danish 154-metre telescope Chile
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Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank The dish of the Lovell Radio Telescope dominates the horizon at the Jodrell Bank Observatory at sunset The te
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ALMA telescopes under stars ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetresub-millimetre Array) is an array of 66 radio antennas located at an elevation of 5000 met
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A delicate sphere of gas photographed by NASAs Hubble Space Telescope resembles a Christmas ornament in an image released by the space agency on Dec
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This mosaic of M31 merges 330 individual images taken by the UltravioletOptical Telescope aboard NASAs Swift spacecraft released by NASA on Oct 27
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NASA image release April 23 2010NASAs Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar gas and dust rising from a tempest
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NASA image release April 23 2010This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkiens The Lord
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Geoffrey Marcy (born 1954) US astronomer on the roof of Campbell Hall at the University of California Berkeley with the domes of 14-inch telescope
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Geoffrey Marcy (born 1954) US astronomer on the roof of Campbell Hall at the University of California Berkeley with the dome of a 14-inch telescop
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Solar prominence (upper right) erupting from the Sun This is a huge mass of plasma (ionised gas) that is visible as it is much cooler than the surrou
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Danish 154-metre telescope Chile
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BAurora on Saturnb BImage 1 of 3b Hubble Space Telescope image of aurorae (blue) encircling Saturns south pole Aurora are produced by the inte
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Arecibo radio observatory as seen by the Ikonos satellite This radio telescope (centre) is situated in a natural crater in the mountains of Puerto R
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Arecibo radio observatory View of the underside of the dish antenna of the Arecibo radio telescope the worlds largest Built into a volcanic crater
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Herschels 40 foot telescope 1891 illustration of a telescope the largest of its time designed by the German-British astronomer Sir Frederick Willi
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Reflecting telescope of 40 ft12 m focal length 1789 Built by William Herschel (1738-1822) the German-born English astronomer this instrument was t
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Herschels 12 metre telescope Illustration of the 12 metre reflecting telescope built by astronomer William Herschel in 1787-9 Unlike other reflecti
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Herschels 40-foot telescope artwork Also known as Herschels Great Telescope it was designed by the British astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822
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Herschels 20-foot telescope artwork This telescope was designed by the german-born British astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822) The tube was 20
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Supernova Remnant 1E 0102 composite HST image
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Herschels 40-foot telescope Illustration depicting the large reflecting telescope built by Sir William Herschel in 1787-9 at a cost of 4000 The tu
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Sir Isaac Newtons own drawing of his reflecting telescope Newton designed and built the first reflecting telescope in 1668 The telescope worked by
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Newtons telescope Sir Isaac Newtons own drawing of his first reflecting telescope design Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668 It work
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Mauna Kea telescopes and comet Image taken at dusk of telescope domes on Mauna Kea with comet Hale-Bopp seen in the sky The telescopes are from lef
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Sectional view of a telegraph tower for Claude Chappes semaphore 1792 (c1870) Chappes (1763-1805) system was in use in France and French colonies
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William Herschels reflecting telescope of 40 ft (12 m) focal length 1789 (1807) Built by the German-born English astronomer William Herschel (1738
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Interior of the WIYN 35-metre Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona USA It saw first light (produced its first astronom
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The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889- 1953) seen in front of the 25m telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory By using this telescope Hubb
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Webb lift off on Ariane 5 rocket
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Bullet cluster (1E 0657-56)
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Arecibo radio observatory Illustration of the Arecibo radio telescope situated in a natural crater in the mountains of Puerto Rico With a diameter
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Model Lunar Probe Ranger This is a 124th scale model of Ranger 1 and 2 the spacecraft series that sought to gather knowledge about the Moon in th
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VLT mount manufacture Manufacture of the mount for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) which will be based at the European Southern Observatory site at Ce
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Black hole in the core of a galaxy Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of a disc of dust and gas circling a black hole in the galaxy NGC 4261 The dus
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The equatorial coude refracting telescope Paris Observatory France - aperture 75cm The tube is bent and light fed to the observer by two mirro
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Gravitational lens Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image showing the phenomenon of gravitational lensing At centre is a cluster of galaxies (yellow) ca
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Spiral galaxy NGC 300 composite image
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Crab nebula (M1)
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False colour radio image of active galaxy Cygnus A (3C 405) at a wavelength of 2 metres Cygnus A is a typical radio galaxy with twin jets emanating f
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Refracting telescope Artwork of the 23 centimetre (9-inch) Fraunhofer refractor telescope at Berlin Observatory Germany on 23 September 1846 the n
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George Ellery Hale American astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) working in his Mount Wilson observatory near Los Angeles USA Hale is using an
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The equatorial coude refracting telescope Paris Observatory France - aperture 75cm The tube is bent and light fed to the observer by two mirro
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Crab nebula (M1)
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Starbirth nebula Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of starbirth regions within nebula NGC 3603 A cluster of hot young stars (centre) has recently f
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Orion Nebula Mosaic of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing the Orion Nebula The colours approximate to natural tones This view abou
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False-colour image of the four Trapezium stars (black spots near centre) within the Orion Nebula This image has been colour-coded to show the diffe
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Interacting quasar Hubble space telescope (HST) optical image of a quasar (bright at centre) interacting with a companion galaxy The galaxys core
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Lord Rosses great 72-inch (1828m) diameter reflecting telescope of 1845 called the Leviathan of Parsonstown Mounted between two brick walls it co
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Crab Nebula pulsar Coloured optical image of the core of the Crab Nebula (M1) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope At the centre of the Crab lies a
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Model 15 Hubble Space Telescope 1983 This a 15 scale model of the support systems module of the Hubble Space Telescope It was fabricated by the
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Gamma ray image of the Crab Nebula (centre) and the gamma ray source known as Geminga (top left) The colour code runs from black for the dim backgrou
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Reflecting telescope of 40 ft12 m focal length 1789 Built by William Herschel (1738-1822) the German-born English astronomer this instrument was
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Lord Rosses great 72-inch (1828m) diameter reflecting telescope of 1845 called the Leviathan of Parsonstown Mounted between two brick walls it co
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Comet Shoemaker-LevyJupiter collision Infrared image showing a splash (impact site) following the arrival of fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 a
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Lord Rosses 72 inch (18m) reflecting telescope 1849 William Parsons 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867) Irish astronomer and engineer built the then
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