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Science Week 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Telescope | - a device that collects light from and magnifies images of distant objects |
| Probes | - unmanned spacecrafts launched into space in order to collect data about the solar system |
| Rocket | - a jet engine that operates like a firework rocket but carries its own oxygen for burning the fuel and is therefore able to run without the oxygen in air |
| Space Shuttle | - a spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space that can be used repeatedly |
| International Space Shuttle | - 16 countries contributed to building a large spacecraft that orbits Earth and is home to astronauts since 2000 |
| Chandra X-Ray Observatory | - telescope specially designed to detect x-ray emission from very hot regions of the universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies and matter around black holes (1999) |
| Compton Gamma Ray Observatory | - first gamma-ray observatory; mapped the Milky Way (1991) |
| Hubble Telescope | - long term space based observatory carried out invisible, infrared and UV |
| Fermi-Gamma-Ray Telescope | - the latest high energy gamma-ray observatory designed to study energetic phenomena from a variety of celestial sources |
| Spitzer Space Telescope | - a spaceborne infrared observatory capable of studying objects ranging from our Solar System to the distant reaches of the universe (2003) |
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