Space Telescope

American  

noun

1. U.S. Aerospace.  a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) optical telescope designed for use in orbit around the earth.

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Example Sentences

Their discovery suggested the presence of an entirely new population of distant celestial sources that the Hubble Space Telescope had not been able to detect.

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Nearly a century later, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have captured the first direct evidence of this mysterious substance, offering the possibility of finally "seeing" dark matter.

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Using new data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Professor Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo now believes he has identified the predicted gamma ray signal associated with dark matter particle annihilation.

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Using X-ray observations from the XMM-Newton space telescope, DiKerby identified a pulsar wind nebula -- an expanding region filled with energetic electrons and particles receiving energy from a pulsar.

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Their work uses advanced cosmological simulations to test whether dark matter -- the invisible material thought to make up most of the universe -- can still account for the surplus of high-energy radiation first spotted by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

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