Hubble telescope

British  

noun

1. Also called: Hubble space telescope.  a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges

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Hubble telescope

This image from Nasa's Hubble telescope shows star formation.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Kane described his inspiration behind the collection, which utilized the motif of a nebula seen from the Hubble telescope, as “the idea of explosive outwards expansion,” Vogue reported back then.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2024

However, depending on whether you look at the home star of Kepler-1625b through the Kepler or the Hubble telescope, this limb darkening effect looks different.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

Thanks to the Hubble telescope, scientists learned that this galaxy has a small bar in the ring structure of its core.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

As it is, even with the Hubble telescope, we can’t see even into the Oort cloud, so we don’t actually know that it is there.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson