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The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, is a ground-based instrument connecting two 8-meter class...
Thousands of people, for almost two decades, accomplished the construction of the telescope element of the largest...
Technicians put final touches on NASA Space Infrared Telescope Facility at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Sunnyvale,...
The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility or SIRTF) is readied for launch at Cape...
Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Volcanoes on Io
This is the video compliment to a presentation about the engineering history of the Webb Telescope's Optical...
NASA held a virtual media briefing on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to discuss the engineering of the James Webb Space Telescope,...
A view of the one dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb...
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The IRTF is a venerable 30-year-old, 3-meter-diameter...
In this artist's rendering of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light....
Caption: One dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb Space...
When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope needs to move, it must be carefully packed inside a specially designed...
Jupiter Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex spacecraft ever made. Over 100 different companies, and multiple...
At the time of launch, the Spitzer Space Telescope bore its original name: the Space Infrared Telescope Facility...
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest telescope ever sent into space. It is the impressive result of...
Artist concept of Next Generation Space Telescope from December, 2002. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04243
Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the...
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most technologically challenging space telescope...
This image shows a model of one of three detectors for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on NASA James Webb Space Telescope.
This image illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA). One of the three major...
This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) flight article assembly with multilayer insulation, high gain...
This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter...