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A Compton telescope (also known as Compton camera or Compton imager) is a gamma-ray detector which utilizes Compton scattering to determine the origin...2 KB (233 words) - 05:18, 10 June 2024
be launched into space, following the Hubble Space Telescope. The CGRO was named after Arthur Compton, an American physicist and former chancellor of Washington...21 KB (2,049 words) - 02:11, 18 March 2025
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a NASA SMEX astrophysics mission that will launch a soft gamma-ray telescope (0.2–5 MeV) in 2027. It is a...11 KB (757 words) - 18:03, 17 October 2024- The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne Compton telescope to observe the gamma-ray sky in the energy range from a few hundred keV to several...4 KB (377 words) - 00:13, 15 July 2023
A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally, it was...42 KB (3,940 words) - 02:57, 24 February 2025
Hubble is the visible light telescope in NASA's Great Observatories program; other parts of the spectrum are covered by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory,...219 KB (21,791 words) - 04:05, 20 March 2025- STS-37 (section Compton Gamma Ray Observatory)the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope (HST)...16 KB (1,427 words) - 13:46, 3 March 2025
a Compton telescope for MeV gamma rays. From 1996 to 2001, Aprile was spokesperson of the NASA-sponsored Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)...10 KB (960 words) - 05:32, 11 March 2025
Chandra X-ray Observatory (redirect from Chandra X-ray Telescope)with the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991–2000), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (2003–2020). The telescope is named after the...38 KB (3,731 words) - 02:17, 18 March 2025
The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a...74 KB (9,261 words) - 20:30, 13 February 2025
Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)refurbished the telescope and extended its projected service life. It remains in active operation as of October 2024[update]. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory...30 KB (3,580 words) - 19:46, 9 February 2025- National Scenic Trail running from New York to North Dakota Nuclear Compton Telescope, a balloon-borne gamma-ray detector Nicastrin, a protein component...2 KB (357 words) - 10:56, 6 May 2024
This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...130 KB (5,654 words) - 03:25, 13 March 2025- Particle Astrophysics Magnet Facility (category Space telescopes)Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT): a status report after 2009 balloon flight" (PDF). PROCEEDINGS OF THE 31st ICRC, ŁODZ 2009. Nuclear Compton Telescope team...8 KB (888 words) - 18:55, 7 August 2023
- telescope on board the ROSAT satellite (1993) First gamma-ray sky map in the energy range 3 to 10 MeV as measured with the imaging Compton telescope COMPTEL...16 KB (2,184 words) - 15:30, 21 November 2023
Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for...40 KB (4,367 words) - 09:30, 15 March 2025- for the Subaru Telescope CGRO – (telescope) COMPton TELescope, another name for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory COROT – (telescope) COnvection ROtation...140 KB (13,347 words) - 03:42, 17 February 2025
Gamma-ray astronomy (redirect from Gamma-ray telescope)diverse mechanisms such as electron-positron annihilation, the inverse Compton effect and in some cases gamma decay, occur in regions of extreme temperature...28 KB (3,314 words) - 03:06, 11 March 2025
General Coordinates Network (category Gamma-ray telescopes)Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS), BeppoSAX, the Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL) on CGRO, the X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (XGRS) on NEAR...7 KB (779 words) - 05:40, 10 June 2024
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being...56 KB (5,615 words) - 06:07, 26 January 2025
- premier radio astronomy observatory. An optical telescope is visual and interesting. A radio telescope is an electronic instrument and you can’t really
- which have indeed made it possible for him to become human. Arthur Holly Compton, The Human Meaning of Science (1940), 2. Far from attempting to control
- these, all but the Compton are still in orbit and active. NASA is planning for another telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, to serve as a replacement