The European Commission recently established a planned gamma-ray observatory as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, or ERIC, which will expedite the construction of the telescope and ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of four great space telescopes NASA launched in the 1990s, revolutionized our understanding of the universe from the moment it first began recording X-rays ...

The Whipple Observatory is home to some of the world’s most advanced astronomical instruments, including the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) gamma ray ...

Today, the European Space Agency's gamma-ray telescope ends its observations ... The high-energy observatory played a pivotal role in revealing the nature of the cosmic explosions known as ...

Hubble is one of NASA's four "great observatories"—the others include the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Claim to Fame: Spitzer is the last ...

the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope (recently decommissioned in 2020), and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (the shortest lived of the bunch, ending in 2000). Much like the powerhouse Hubble ...

American-European space telescope in low Earth orbit Launched: 2008 Cost: $690 million Namesake: Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist Specialties: Serves as a gamma-ray observatory ...

Along with the Hubble Space Telescope and now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Chandra is one of NASA’s “Great Observatories” launched near the turn of the ...