What type of telescope is the famous telescope that orbits the earth?

Answer 1

list of all the X-ray telescopes in space:

1st High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO 1)

3rd High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO 3)

A Broadband Imaging X-ray All-sky Survey (ABRIXAS)

Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA)

AGILE

Ariel V

Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (Alexis)

Aryabhata

Astron

Astronomical Netherlands Satellite (ANS)

Astrosat

BeppoSAX

Broad Band X-ray Telescope / Astro 1

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Cos-B

Cosmic Radiation Satellite (CORSA)

Dark Universe Observatory

Einstein Observatory (HEAO 2)

EXOSAT

Ginga (Astro-C)

Granat

Hakucho

High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE 2)

International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL)

International X-ray Observatory

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)

ROSAT

Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

Spectrum-X-Gamma

Suzaku (ASTRO-E2)

Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer

Tenma

Third Small Astronomy Satellite (SAS-C)

Uhuru

X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission (XEUS)

XMM-Newton

Answer 2

The famous telescope that orbits the Earth is the Hubble Space Telescope, which is a space-based observatory launched by NASA in 1990. It observes in visible, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths and has provided significant contributions to our understanding of the universe.

Answer 3

Telescopes that work with light and radio waves can work from Earth´s surface. Any other types of electromagnetic waves will hardly reach Earth's surface, so to use those (e.g., X-rays, infrared, and others), telescopes have to be taken to outer space.

Answer 4

Telescopes can be broadly classified into two types:

• Optical Telescopes
• Non-Optical Telescopes

Optical Telescopes

Optical telescopes are those telescopes that are to used to observe electromagnetic radiation in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Most often, while using these telescopes, we see the image directly with our eyes. Some optical telescopes like the VLT (Very Large Telescope) or the Hubble Space Telescope take digital pictures of the images and store it.

Optical telescopes are of two principle types:

• Refractors
• Reflectors

Refractors

This is the first kind of telescope invented by a dutch optician Hans Lippershey and perfected by Galileo Galilei. It uses two convex lenses to refract light and form an image of the object.

Refractors can be used for terrestrial as well as astronomical purposes

Reflectors

This kind of telescope was invented by Isaac newton. It uses two parabolic mirrors to focus light into the eyepiece, and hence form an image of the object. It is generally used for astronomical observations only.

Other kinds of telescopes which use a combination of mirrors and lenses also exist.

Non-optical telescopes

These telescopes are used to observe electromagnetic radiation in the non-visible region region of the EM spectrum. These include

• Radio
• Microwave
• Infrared
• Ultraviolet
• X-ray
• Gamma Ray

We do not observe the images from these telescopes directly. The telescopes capture images and the data is formatted so that we can view it. For example, an infrared telescope would gather IR light, but we cannot view IR light with our eyes. So it converts each of the respective IR wavelengths into colors we can see.

Space Telescopes

Both, optical and non-optical telescopes are launched into space to get better astronomical readings. In space, there is no atmospheric disturbance, and we can obtain images throughout the day.

Some space telescopes are:

• Hubble Space Telescope - Optical telescope
• Spitzer Space Telescope - Infrared telescope
• Chandra X-ray Observatory - X-ray telescope
• SWIFT - Gamma Ray telescope
• WMAP - Microwave telescope

Answer 5

The first large space telescope was the Hubble, and it's probably still the most famous one. But a LOT of the new and exciting work being done is using the Kepler Space Telescope, a device which was specially designed to search for planets around neighboring stars.

Answer 6

You're probably thinking of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is a "conventional" telescope that captures pretty pictures, and the Kepler Space Telescope which doesn't capture any images, but is extremely sensitive to very tiny changes in light intensity.

Unfortunately, the gyroscopes on the Kepler Space Telescope have started to fail, and it can no longer maintain its precise orientation, so it is mostly lost to us. It is too far from Earth for any spacecraft to get to it; not even the Space Shuttle was capable of going that far.

The follow-on device is the Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled for launch sometime in the 2016-2018 timeframe. So it'll be a while.

Answer 7

There are a few frequency bands of electromagnetic radiation that are absorbed by our atmosphere; if we want to observe the cosmos in those bands, we need to place our telescope in space above the atmosphere. The most "useful" of these is the infrared band, with frequencies a little below those of visible light.

Answer 8

The Hubble telescope is in orbit around the Earth.

Answer 9

The Hubble Space Telescope is a Ritchey-Chretien type of reflector design.

Answer 10

There are many orbiting telescopes, the hubble telescope is the best known. Most are for wavelengths absorbed by the air.