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space telescope comparison table

Subject	has reference	is a kind of	has wavelength sensitivity	has optical design
infrared space telescope		space telescope	1 to 250 microns
optical space telescope	astroweb	optical telescope	300 to 1000 nanometers
X-ray space telescope		space telescope	in gamma ray and X-rays

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