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The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.

On the surface, the Odyssey Pro looks like most telescopes. It uses a traditional Newtonian reflector design to gather light with a mirror diameter of 85mm and a focal length of 320mm, resulting ...

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The infrared telescope and its detectors have a distinct design of three cone-shaped layers of photon shields that allow it to operate at temperatures of minus 350 degrees Fahrenheit. The design ...

And that means we can draw really grand conclusions from a very large data set about the universe that we see." Part of that SPHEREx's mission, according to NPR's Ari Daniel, is to bridge the gap ...

The first telescopes refracted light, and today reflectors dominate, but there is a third way to make light focus, and it might finally have its day.

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