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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Example Sentences

Although this debunks the previous assumptions about protoplanetary disks, it also confirms earlier images from the mid-2000s from NASA’s Hubble Telescope.

From Salon

“If equivalent rates of fake data were discovered in any other field—for example, if 82% of people in the UK Biobank or 17% of galaxies detected by the Hubble telescope were revealed to be imaginary—a major scandal would ensue. In demography, however, such revelations seem to barely merit citation,” the paper says.

From Science Magazine

The Hubble telescope is about the size of a bus, and the James Webb telescope is almost three times as big as that.

From BBC

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

Leavitt’s Law has been used on the Hubble Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope in making new calculations about the rate of expansion of the universe and the proximity of stars billions of light years from earth.

From New York Times