Famous Telescopes
Most of these are links to external sites.
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- The future James Webb Space Telescope
now under design, that will someday replace the HST.
- The Spitzer Space Telescope
- The Chandra X-ray Observatory CXO
- The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
- The telescopes at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories
NOAO, including
the telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and the
Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory.
- The twin 8-meter optical telescopes of the
Gemini Observatory
- The Keck Observatory
- The Palomar Observatory
- See an example of how RG and MH observe galaxy rotation curves at Palomar
- The telescopes at the European Southern Observatory including the VLT
- The telescopes at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRAO, including
the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large
Array, the Very Long Baseline Array and the future Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
- How does an array work?
- How does the Green Bank telescope work?
- What will the Atacama Large Millimeter Array be like?
- The facilities at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
NAIC, especially the Arecibo 1000-foot antenna.
- How does the Arecibo telescope work?
- 2005 Radio-Millimeter-Submillimeter (RMS) Planning Group compilation of
facilities and projects and
CMB programs/facilities
- The Cornell-Caltech Atacama Telescope C-CAT
- The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy CARMA
- The Large Millimeter Telescope LMT
- The Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica's South Pole
Telescope
- The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe WMAP
- The Global Oscillation Network Group project
GONG
- The Roentgen X-ray Satellite ROSAT
- The former Gamma Ray Observatory GRO (which got dropped in the
Pacific Ocean, deliberately, in June 2000)
- Check out all the
NASA astronomy missions, past, present and future.
