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The Star Splitters: The High Energy Astronomy Observatories 
  
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Publisher: Scientific and Technical Information Branch National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Wallace Tucker's The Star Splitters is an online book about the history of NASA's High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) Program, which provided the first x-ray focusing telescopes…
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-466/sp466.htm
James Webb Space Telescope 
  
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The James Webb Space Telescope is set to be NASA’s infrared flagship observatory beginning in the summer of 2022. With expected resolution from 0.6 to 28.8 micron, it will enable…
https://webbtelescope.org/
MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network 
  
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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MicroObservatory is a network of five automated telescopes that can be controlled over the Internet. These telescopes were developed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for…
https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/
NASA: Swift Mission 
  
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N. Gehrels; Publisher: Goddard Space Flight Center
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Swift is the first space observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray bursts and their afterglow in the gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavebands.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/main
Gemini Observatory 
  
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P. Michaud
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This site covers many aspects of the Gemini Observatory. It discusses where it is located, what it observes, what pictures it takes, and certain issues that pertain to it.
http://www.gemini.edu/

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