The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation...
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indicative of high recession velocities. Hubble's name is most widely recognized for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was named in his honor, with a model...
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instruments allow it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. This enables investigations across many fields of astronomy and...
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parallaxes of galactic Cepheids from spatially scanning the Hubble Space Telescope: Implications for the Hubble constant" (PDF). The Astrophysical Journal...
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Great Observatories program (category Hubble Space Telescope)
X-rays, visible and ultraviolet light, and infrared light. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) primarily observes visible light and near-ultraviolet. It...
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Mount Wilson Observatory (redirect from Hooker Telescope)
telescope mirrors was first tested on the older 1.5 meter mirror. Edwin Hubble performed many critical calculations from work on the Hooker telescope...
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Angular resolution (redirect from List of telescopes by angular resolution)
Long Term Perspectives". The Messenger. 166: 2. arXiv:1701.01249. "Hubble Space Telescope". NASA. 2007-04-09. Retrieved 2022-09-27. Dalcanton, Julianne; Seager...
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Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (category Hubble Space Telescope instruments)
scientific instrument for infrared astronomy, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), operating from 1997 to 1999, and from 2002 to 2008. Images...
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well-known examples are the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck telescopes and the ESO Very Large Telescope. The Ritchey–Chrétien telescope was invented in the early...
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an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions...
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installation of the COSTAR corrective-optics module in the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, the Hubble Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was used to measure the...
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Advanced Camera for Surveys (category Hubble Space Telescope instruments)
Surveys (ACS) is a third-generation axial instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The initial design and scientific capabilities of ACS were...
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the most productive facilities for astronomy, second only to the Hubble Space Telescope in terms of the number of scientific papers produced from facilities...
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(2014). "Parallax beyond a Kiloparsec from Spatially Scanning the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope". The Astrophysical Journal. 785 (2): 161...
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18, 2023. Retrieved December 19, 2006. "Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble Telescope!". Hubble News Desk (Press release). NASA. April 24, 2006. Archived from...
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announced a completion of its repairs related to the main mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing for sharper images and, consequently, more accurate analyses...
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speeds associated with Hubble's law are not velocities in a relativistic sense (for example, they are not related to the spatial components of 4-velocities)...
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spacecraft to have visited it. The advent of the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics has allowed for additional...
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typically found only in the early universe. Early observations with the Hubble Space Telescope suggested an age of 500 million years old for I Zwicky 18. Astronomers...
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Nebula was the subject of an investigation by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997, using filters that isolate emission from hydrogen atoms...
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Earth. In April 2014, NASA astronomers reported that the Hubble Space Telescope, by using spatial scanning, can precisely measure distances up to 10,000...
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Diffraction-limited system (category Telescopes)
atmospheric distortion is negligible. Space-based telescopes (such as Hubble, or a number of non-optical telescopes) always work at their diffraction limit, if...
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Xuntian (redirect from Chinese Space Station Telescope)
have a field of view 300–350 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. This will allow the telescope to image up to 40 percent of the sky using its 2...
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diameters to produce far greater resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope. A mask is placed over the telescope which only allows light through a small number...
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Chandra X-ray Observatory (redirect from Chandra X-ray Telescope)
along with the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991–2000), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (2003–2020). The telescope is named after...
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Han; Dupree, Andrea K.; Gilliland, Ronald L. (1998). "Spatially Resolved Hubble Space Telescope Spectra of the Chromosphere of α Orionis". The Astronomical...
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Great Britain: George Philis Limited. ISBN 0-540-07465-9. "HubbleSite – The Telescope – Hubble Essentials". NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03...
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(2014). "Parallax Beyond a Kiloparsec from Spatially Scanning the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope". The Astrophysical Journal. 785 (2): 161...
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collisions between stars in the dense cluster. Images from the Hubble Space Telescope have shown pronounced districts of these stragglers in M80, suggesting...
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UDFy-38135539 (category Hubble Space Telescope)
discovered by three teams in September 2009 in sensitive infrared Hubble Space Telescope images and identified by these as source UDF-38135539 (R Bouwens...
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