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This is image is of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory, located in north San Diego County,...
This image of the Crab Pulsar was taken with CHIMERA, an instrument at the Palomar Observatory, which is operated by...
This image taken with the Palomar Observatory Hale Telescope, shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120...
Andromeda galaxy from Palomar Observatory
These time-lapse images of a newfound dwarf planet in our solar system, formerly known as 2003 UB313 or Xena, and...
This image shows the HR 8799 planets with starlight optically suppressed and data processing conducted to remove...
These two images show HD 157728, a nearby star 1.5 times larger than the sun. Project 1640 uses new technology on...
Credit: Mt Wilson/Palomar Observatories - NGC 224 The Great Galaxy, in Andromeda, type Sb. Shows south preceding...
Shown here is an identical copy of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, superconducting nanowire...
How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...
The streak circled in the center of this image is asteroid 2020 QG, which came closer to Earth than any other...
Shown here is a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the...
Deep Space Station 13 (DSS-13) at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California – part...
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) at NASA Jet Propulsion...
This collage and animation represent NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 7335 1989 JA on May 26, 2022,...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment marked a historic...
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration has successfully concluded after two years,...