LibGuides: Year 9 & 10 Science: Third Rock from the Sun: Deep Space Telescopes

Supporting Deep Space Exploration

One Better than the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything – DSS43 turns 43
DSS43 (located in Canberra) has also supported hundreds of robotic missions exploring the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets and supporting deep space telescopes peering into the distant universe.

Hubble Telescope

NASA: Why a Telescope in Space?
Hubble's unique characteristics ― like its broad wavelength coverage, its position beyond Earth's atmosphere, and its assortment of science instruments ― have made it one of astronomy's most important tools.

This is the inside story of the Hubble Space Telescope - an engineering challenge which nearly broke NASA - as told by the unsung heroes who designed, built, and saved it.

How Hubble Space Telescope Works
How Hubble has documented outer space and the instruments that have allowed it to do so.

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Chandra X-Ray Observatory: NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy.
Chandra is designed to observe X-rays from high-energy regions of the universe, such as the remnants of exploded stars.

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Chandra Observatory on Twitter
Images direct from the Observatory - Official Twitter account of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

This film takes viewers on a tour of the history of the telescope, from Galileo to Hubble and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, currently being built and launching in 2018, exploring our efforts to understand our place in the stars.

The series finale examines the quest to explore deep space and live beyond Earth. Included: NASA's first space station, Skylab; the International Space Station; the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, in orbit since 1999, studies the high-energy Universe, where black holes, exploding stars, and mysterious matter hold sway.

James Webb Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope will go where no other telescope has gone before. This is the epic story of the scientists who have devoted their lives to developing it.

How the James WebbSpace Telescope works
The James Webb telescope's 18-segmented mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe, and will help the telescope peer inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are still forming.

Spitzer Space Telescope

Spitzer Space Telescope
Launched in 2003, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope was the fourth and final addition to NASA’s Great Observatory program. Spitzer’s mission was to become NASA’s premier infrared light observatory, offering astronomers the chance to study the universe in this critical part of the electromagnetic spectrum of light with unprecedented clarity and sensitivity.
Spitzer Space Telescope NASA’s Infrared Great Observatory
The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, was NASA’s Infrared Great Observatory. Among many other accomplishments in its 16 years of operation, Spitzer discovered a giant ring of Saturn, revealed a system of seven Earth-size planets around a star 40 light-years away, and studied the most distant known galaxies.

Hooker Telescope

Mount Wilson Observatory
Home of the Hooker Telescope
Discoveries made with the Hooker 100-inch telescope:
Wikipedia page including list of discoveries made by the Hooker Telescope.
Hubble's Other Telescope and the Day it Rocked our World