[jun]SPITZER TELESCOPE Flashcards

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Context?

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will be retired on January 30, 2020

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Launched

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2003,

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Key achievements?

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  • revealed a new ring around Saturn
  • assisted in the discovery of planets beyond our solar system, including the detection of seven Earth-size planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1
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About Spitzer?

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-Lunched to study the universe in the infrared,It is the last mission of the NASA Great Observatories program

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Function?

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  • Spitzer focuses on the infrared band, which normally represents heat radiation from objects. The other observatories looked at visible light (Hubble, still operational), gamma-rays (Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, no longer operational) and X-rays (the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, still operational.)
  • Basically ha group ahe telescopes cha,pratyekacha kaam fakt vegala vegala ahe pan.
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