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HST

American  
Or H.S.T.,
  1. Hawaii Standard Time.


HST British  

abbreviation

  1. high speed train

  2. Hubble Space Telescope

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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After another HST observation in 2006, Kalas concluded that a bright object visible in images from both 2004 and 2006 was a planet.

From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026

HST last night, @NOAA's #GOESWest 🛰️ captured the eruption of Hawaii's #MaunaLoa volcano, inside @Volcanoes_NPS.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022

But in April 2021 van Dokkum’s team released the results of an in-depth HST study of both anomalous galaxies, showing that their greater initial distance estimates were correct.

From Scientific American • Dec. 22, 2021

HST hot-Jupiter transmission spectral survey: haze in the atmosphere of WASP-6b.

From Nature • May 6, 2018

With the ability to measure both visible and infrared wavelengths, it will serve as the successor to both HST and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016