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Technicians at work on ISO's telescope

ISO's ISOCAM image of the Helix

ISO launch lights up the night

Schematic diagram of ISO

JWST's simulated image of galaxies, with redshifts indicated

Lensed cluster

Location of Lagrangian point (L2)

The JWST sees these kinds of images

Artist's impression of the JWST

Artist's impression of IUE

Herschel's telescope petals seen from behind

A reduced version of Herschel's mirror (with a diameter of 1.35 metres)

The Herschel Space Observatory is the largest imaging space telescope ever built

Artist's impression of Herschel

Technicians at work on Herschel's mirror

Technician views Herschel's demonstration reflector

Herschel, largest telescope ever launched

Hipparcos during final qualification testing

Hipparcos's instruments produced positional surveys of stars

Hipparcos

Hipparcos

Scientists preparing Hipparcos

Artist's impression of a comet's nucleus

Giotto's instruments and silver-coloured hydrazine fuel tanks

Artist's impression of Gaia, showing modules

Life could arise in a wide variety of environments, for example on the satellite of a giant planet

Life could arise in a wide variety of environments, for example on the satellite of a giant planet

Like different musical instruments, different types of stars produce different types of sound waves

Distances between habitable planets and their parent star vary

Artist's impression of Eddington

Understanding stellar structures tells us the following information

Life could evolve on the satellites of giant planets

Darwin's flotilla of telescopes and communication satellite

Darwin's six telescopes

Malcolm Fridlund

Michael McKay

Jean-Loup Bertaux

Rickard Lundin

Thor missile being launched

Colin Pillinger

Agustin Chicarro

Vittorio Formisano

Con McCarthy

Jean-Pierre Bibring

Giovanni Picardi

Michel Denis

Martin Pätzold

Zarya and Unity are released by Space Shuttle Endeavour after docking

Rudi Schmidt

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