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    Trajectory Details (Swift)". NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2008-02-27. "NASA – NSSDC – Spacecraft – Details (Swift)". NASA. Archived...
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    The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama...
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    magnetar-candidate yet discovered, using ESO's Very Large Telescope. The newly discovered object was designated SWIFT J195509+261406. On September 1, 2014, ESA released...
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    time-tagging techniques and event reconstruction methods, will enhance spatial and temporal resolution. Machine learning algorithms and big data analytics...
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    Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    X-ray optics, giving spatial resolution an order of magnitude better than collimated instruments (comparable to optical telescopes), with an enormous improvement...
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    Gamma-ray burst (category Gamma-ray telescopes)
    dead link] Barthelmy, S.D.; et al. (2005). "The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the SWIFT Midex Mission". Space Science Reviews. 120 (3–4): 143–164....
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  • detailed analysis of the spatial distribution of GRBs within the distant universe. Provided by more than 15 years of data from the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission...
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    photomultiplier tube. This method allows detection of neutrinos above 50 GeV with a spatial resolution of approximately 2 degrees. AMANDA was used to generate neutrino...
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    Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (category Hubble Space Telescope instruments)
    allowed investigation of high redshift galaxies and quasars with high spatial resolution, which was especially useful when analyzed in conjunction with...
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    at which points Mars made its closest approaches to the Earth. Better telescopes developed early in the 19th century allowed permanent Martian albedo features...
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