5
Space-Based
Astronomy
•NASA’s suite of “Great
Observatories”
–The Hubble Space Telescope
–The Spitzer Space Telescope
–The Chandra X-ray Observatory
–(“Deceased”: The Compton Gamma
Ray Observatory)
•Other missions: XMM-Newton (w/ESA), FUSE, Galex, WMAP, many others
•Future: James Webb Space Telescope,
Astro-E2, SNAP, TPF,
GLAST, Swift, LISA, Constellation-X
•Technical phrase is “Lots and lots and lots.”