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Telescopes & observatories

The instruments that take these images — in orbit and on the ground.

Hubble Space Telescope
Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope
NASA media (public domain)NASA, ESA and Erich Karkoschka University of Arizona
James Webb Space Telescope
By the Dozen: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Spitzer Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope Ready for Launch
NASA media (public domain)NASA
Chandra X-ray Observatory
History of Chandra X-Ray Observatory
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Marshall
Kepler Space Telescope
White Dwarfs: Small and Strong
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
TESS
TESS Spacecraft Uncrating
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Kennedy
Gaia
Star Gaia 17pbi Seen by Spitzer
NASA media (public domain)NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kuhn (Caltech)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman visits James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) a
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
Space Shuttle Projects
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Marshall
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Galactic Haze seen by Planck and Galactic Bubbles seen by Fermi
NASA media (public domain)ESA/Planck Collaboration microwave; NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT/Dobler et al./Su et al. gamma rays
Herschel Space Observatory
Andromeda Colorful Rings
NASA media (public domain)ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/NHSC
Planck
The Mysterious Galactic Haze seen by Planck
NASA media (public domain)ESA/NASA/Planck Collaboration
WISE
WISE Last Light
NASA media (public domain)NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Euclid
Euclid Spacecraft in Cleanroom
NASA media (public domain)ESA
Solar Dynamics Observatory
Solar Dynamics Observatory Briefing
NASA media (public domain)NASA
SOHO
SOHO Orbit [Video]
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Hinode
Hinode Views the 2012 Venus Transit
NASA media (public domain)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
TRACE
Mars Gully: No Mineral Trace of Liquid Water
NASA media (public domain)NASA/JPL/JHUAPL
Ariel (exoplanet mission)
Ariel Densely Pitted Surface
NASA media (public domain)NASA/JPL
PLATO (exoplanet mission)
Plato Crater
NASA media (public domain)NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Mauna Kea Observatories
Four observatories Mauna Kea
CC BY-SAKevstan
W. M. Keck Observatory
W. M. Keck Observatory at dawn
CC BY-SABonus Onus
Very Large Array
The Very Large Array, New Mexico
Public domainJesse Allen
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array)
ALMA and a Starry Night
CC BYESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
Palomar Observatory
Pti aerial photo B
Public domainGerard T. van Belle
LIGO Hanford
LIGO Hanford aerial 05
Public domainLIGO Laboratory
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Ing telescopes sunset la palma july 2001
Public domainBob Tubbs
Very Large Telescope (VLT)
VLT Cerro Paranal Total Lunar Eclipse 21 December 2010
CC BYESO/Y. Beletsky
Gemini Observatory
Gemini South 01
CC BYDenys (fr)
Green Bank Telescope
Green Bank Telescope, 2008
Public domainGeremia at English Wikipedia
FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope)
FastTelescope*8sep2015
CC BY-SAPsr1909
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Heavy Lifting at Vera C. Rubin Observatory
CC BYRubin Observatory/NSF/AURA

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