Astro 1: `Slides' for Class 29 - Telescopes at Non-optical Wavelengths



All-sky image in optical light





All-sky image in radio light (at a frequency of 408 MHz)





All-sky image in X-ray light (at energies of 2-10 keV)





The Milky Way Galaxy seen at multiple wavelengths





The Green Bank Telescope - a radio telescope (in Green Bank, West Virginia)





Comparison of the Green Bank Telescope (in Green Bank, West Virginia) to the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty





The Arecibo radio telescope (in Puerto Rico)





The Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope (in Socorro, New Mexico)





The Sun seen at radio wavelengths





Tycho's supernova remnant seen at radio wavelengths





The active galaxy M87 seen at radio wavelengths





The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit





The Uhuru X-ray satellite





The Chandra X-ray Observatory





The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory





X-ray image of Jupiter made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory





X-ray image of Tycho's supernova remnant made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory





X-ray image of the Coma Cluster made with the ROSAT X-ray satellite





The active galaxy Centaurus A seen at X-ray, optical, and radio wavelengths





Chandra X-ray images of very distant quasars





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