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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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“Imagine if 82% of the stars seen by the Hubble Space Telescope turned out to be dust on the lens,” Mr. Newman writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Discovery is known for flying more miles in space than any other shuttle orbiter, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit and making an early rendezvous with Russia’s Mir space station.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

He was a member of the instrument support teams for NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Spectrograph and Infrared Array Camera, according to the university.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have finally uncovered what powers some of the brightest stellar explosions ever observed.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

For a memorial you must look to the sky and the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990 and named in his honor.

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

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