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    The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea...
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    An infrared telescope is a telescope that uses infrared light to detect celestial bodies. Infrared light is one of several types of radiation present...
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    The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), was an infrared space telescope launched in 2003, that was deactivated...
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    interest in the 1985 Infrared Telescope (IRT) mission on the Space Shuttle, and the planned Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility which eventually transformed...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with...
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  • NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope, previously known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. In 2009, the telescope ran out of liquid helium and...
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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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    be mounted at Subaru Telescope's four focal points for observations in visible and infrared wavelengths. Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph...
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    Chile, Australia, Argentina, Brazil NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF): NASA James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT): China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan...
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    allow a 2.5 m (8.2 ft) diameter reflecting telescope access to the sky. This telescope was designed for infrared astronomy observations in the stratosphere...
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