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ASTHROS (short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths) is a high-altitude balloon mission for studying astrophysical phenomena. .
Launch date: Dec. 1, 2024
Euclid will investigate the profound cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. .
Launch date: July 2023
One of four instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope, the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, studies planets, stars, and galaxies in infrared light. .
Launch date: Dec. 25, 2021
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 450 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe. .
Published: Aug. 31, 2020
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument is a system of masks, prisms, detectors, filters, and self-flexing mirrors built to demonstrate new technologies for blocking out the glare of stars and directly imaging the planets and disks in orbit around them. it will fly aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, formerly the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST). .
Published: May 28, 2020
A facility aboard the International Space Station, the Cold Atom Laboratory, will make use of the space station's microgravity environment to study quantum phenomena in ways that aren’t possible on Earth. .
Launch date: May 21, 2018
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission studies the universe in high energy X-rays to better understand the dynamics of black holes, exploding stars and the most extreme active galaxies. .
Launch date: June 13, 2012
WISE launched in 2009, repeatedly mapping the entire sky in infrared light. .
Launch date: Dec. 14, 2009
A space-based telescope designed to study some of the coldest and darkest regions of the universe using infrared light, Herschel was responsible for numerous findings about dark matter, galaxies and other cosmic mysteries. .
Launch date: May 14, 2009
Designed to study ancient radiation from the big bang, the Planck space telescope was a European Space Agency mission that aimed to better understand the origin of the universe and the formation of galaxies. .
NASA’s Infrared Great Observatory .
Launch date: Aug. 25, 2003
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer was an orbiting space telescope designed to observe the universe in ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation in the universe. .
Launch date: April 28, 2003