Space Observatories

The Fleet of Space Telescopes

Beyond Hubble and JWST, a fleet of space observatories covers the full electromagnetic spectrum. Chandra (X-rays, 1999), XMM-Newton (X-rays, 1999), Fermi (gamma-rays, 2008), and Spitzer (infrared, 2003–2020) have each revealed a different l

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