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Space Telescope

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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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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may discover more secrets in the stars.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, also orbits the Sun around one million miles from Earth, but its field of vision is not as expansive.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

Elisabeth Krause, a professor of astronomy and physics, leads the wide-field science team "Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope."

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

The James Webb Space Telescope can see planets about 100,000 times dimmer than their star.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 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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