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  "title": "Famous Telescopes and Observatories",
  "description": "Famous space and ground-based telescopes with their location, wavelength, and first light year.",
  "emoji": "🔭",
  "license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
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    "first_light_year",
    "id",
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    "name",
    "type",
    "wavelength"
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      "id": "hubble",
      "name": "Hubble Space Telescope",
      "type": "Space",
      "location_or_orbit": "Low Earth orbit (~535 km)",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 1990,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/hubble"
    },
    {
      "id": "jwst",
      "name": "James Webb Space Telescope",
      "type": "Space",
      "location_or_orbit": "Sun-Earth L2 point",
      "wavelength": "Infrared",
      "first_light_year": 2022,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/jwst"
    },
    {
      "id": "spitzer",
      "name": "Spitzer Space Telescope",
      "type": "Space",
      "location_or_orbit": "Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit",
      "wavelength": "Infrared",
      "first_light_year": 2003,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/spitzer"
    },
    {
      "id": "chandra",
      "name": "Chandra X-ray Observatory",
      "type": "Space",
      "location_or_orbit": "Highly elliptical Earth orbit",
      "wavelength": "X-ray",
      "first_light_year": 1999,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/chandra"
    },
    {
      "id": "kepler",
      "name": "Kepler Space Telescope",
      "type": "Space",
      "location_or_orbit": "Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 2009,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/kepler"
    },
    {
      "id": "gaia",
      "name": "Gaia",
      "type": "Space",
      "location_or_orbit": "Sun-Earth L2 point",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 2014,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/gaia"
    },
    {
      "id": "tess",
      "name": "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite",
      "type": "Space",
      "location_or_orbit": "High Earth elliptical orbit",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 2018,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/tess"
    },
    {
      "id": "very-large-telescope",
      "name": "Very Large Telescope (VLT)",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "Cerro Paranal, Chile",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 1998,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/very-large-telescope"
    },
    {
      "id": "keck",
      "name": "W. M. Keck Observatory",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "Mauna Kea, Hawaii, United States",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 1993,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/keck"
    },
    {
      "id": "alma",
      "name": "Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "Chajnantor Plateau, Chile",
      "wavelength": "Radio",
      "first_light_year": 2011,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/alma"
    },
    {
      "id": "arecibo",
      "name": "Arecibo Observatory",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "Arecibo, Puerto Rico",
      "wavelength": "Radio",
      "first_light_year": 1963,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/arecibo"
    },
    {
      "id": "fast",
      "name": "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "Guizhou, China",
      "wavelength": "Radio",
      "first_light_year": 2016,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/fast"
    },
    {
      "id": "gran-telescopio-canarias",
      "name": "Gran Telescopio Canarias",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 2007,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/gran-telescopio-canarias"
    },
    {
      "id": "subaru",
      "name": "Subaru Telescope",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "Mauna Kea, Hawaii, United States",
      "wavelength": "Optical",
      "first_light_year": 1998,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/subaru"
    },
    {
      "id": "green-bank",
      "name": "Green Bank Telescope",
      "type": "Ground",
      "location_or_orbit": "Green Bank, West Virginia, United States",
      "wavelength": "Radio",
      "first_light_year": 2000,
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/telescopes/green-bank"
    }
  ]
}