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CGRO (Compton Gamma Ray Observatory)γ射线天文台 谢谢！ * The largest refractor telescope built is the one at Yerkes Observatory，installed in 1897. It has an objective 1.02 meters (40 inches) across at one end of a 19.2-meter (63 feet) tube. * Newtonian telescope is a particularly popular design for smaller reflecting telescopes, such as those used by amateur astronomers. Astronomers may choose to work on a rear platform where they can use equipment, such as a spectroscope, that is too heavy to hoist to the prime focus. In this case, light reflected by the primary mirror toward the prime focus is intercepted by a smaller secondary mirror, which reflects it back down through a small hole at the center of the primary mirror. This arrangement is known as a Cassegrain telescope (after Guillaume Cassegrain, a French lensmaker). A third, much smaller, mirror then reflects the light into an environmentally controlled laboratory. Known as the coudé room (from the French word for bent), this laboratory is separate from the telescope itself, enabling astronomers to use very heavy and finely tuned equipment that could not possibly be lifted to either the prime focus or the Cassegrain focus. The light path to the coudé room lies along the axis of the telescopes mount—that is, the axis around which the telescope rotates as it tracks objects across the sky—so that the light path does not change as the telescope moves. * Located in the Andes Mountains of Chile, the European Southern Observatory at La Silla is run by a consortium of European nations. * (a) VLA radio photograph (or radiograph) of the spiral galaxy M51, observed at radio frequencies with an angular resolution of a few arc seconds; (b) shows nearly as much detail as (b) an actual (light) photograph of that same galaxy made with the 4-m Kitt Peak optical telescope. * HST is designed to allow astronomers to probe the universe with at least 10 times finer resolution and with some 30 times greater sensitivity to light than ex