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  2. Webb telescope captures stunning new image of the ... - AOL

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    Photos taken by the Webb telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, reveals a new texture in the galaxy's outer ring and details the dust along the ring. Such dust is an "essential building ...

  3. Astrophotography - Wikipedia

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    Astronomical pictures, like observational astronomy and photography from space exploration, show astronomical objects and phenomena in different colors and brightness, and often as composite images. This is done to highlight different features or reflect different conditions, and makes the note of these conditions necessary.

  4. Fata Morgana (mirage) - Wikipedia

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    Here the described mirages of vessels "could only be seen with the aid of a telescope". It is often the case when observing a Fata Morgana that one needs to use a telescope or binoculars to really make out the mirage. The "cloud" that the article mentions a few times probably refers to a duct.

  5. First light (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    The Sun in the first light image from the IRIS satellite. The famous 5.08-metre (200 in) Hale Telescope of Palomar Observatory saw first light on 26 January 1949, targeting NGC 2261 [2] under the direction of American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. The image was published in many magazines and is available on Caltech Archives. [citation needed]

  6. Stunning Webb telescope image shows closest star ... - AOL

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    The Rho Ophiuchi image was an example of that, showing a neb. ... The Webb telescope, which was launched in 2021 and began collecting data last year, has reshaped the understanding of the early ...

  7. The universe is watching: NASA telescopes capture stunning ...

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    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope captured a pair of spiral galaxies some 114 million light-years from Earth. The smaller galaxy on the left, known as IC 2163, passed ...

  8. Astronomical seeing - Wikipedia

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    The telescope used had a diameter of about 7r 0 (see definition of r 0 below, and example simulated image through a 7r 0 telescope). Twinkling of the brightest star of the night sky Sirius (apparent magnitude = -1,1) in the evening shortly before culmination on the southern meridian at a height of 20 degrees above the horizon. During 29 seconds ...

  9. Maria Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    Mitchell was the first internationally known woman to work as both a professional astronomer and a professor of astronomy after accepting a position at Vassar College in 1865. [4] [5] She was also the first woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [4] [6]