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    The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) was a space telescope designed to make spectroscopic observations in the far-ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic...
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    (170–650 nm, 2004- ) - Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (flew in 1990 and 1995) - ROSAT XUV (17-210eV) (30-6 nm, 1990–1999) - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer...
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    sphere in ultraviolet and X-ray spectral wavelengths with the ASTRO-1 observatory, consisting of four telescopes: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT); Wisconsin...
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    detected light in the far ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is mostly unobservable by other telescopes. Its primary mission was...
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    STS-67 (category Ultraviolet telescopes)
    unique instruments – the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) and the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment...
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    Samuel T. Durrance (category Johns Hopkins University faculty)
    and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He was a co-investigator for the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, one of the instruments...
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  • retired from Hopkins in 1982, but continued to work on campus for another 15 years. He contributed to the design of the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope,[citation...
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    GALEX (category Ultraviolet telescopes)
    Explorer 83 or SMEX-7) was a NASA orbiting space telescope designed to observe the universe in ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation...
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    arcminutes. The energy range is 15-150 keV. UVOT (Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope) monitors the afterglow in ultraviolet and visible light, and locates the source...
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    an optical telescope with a mirror 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in diameter. Second, a space-based telescope could observe infrared and ultraviolet light, which...
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    Maryland managed telescope development, while the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University operates...
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    its composition. Ultraviolet astronomy was impossible before the Space Age, and some of the first space telescopes were UV telescopes designed to observe...
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    was observed with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope on 10 December 1990, during the Space Shuttle mission Astro-1. The ultraviolet spectrum obtained revealed...
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  • The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations...
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    et al. (July 2000). "Far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of Venus and Mars at 4 Å resolution with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope on Astro-2". The Astrophysical...
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    Greeley, Bradford W.; Blair, William P.; Long, Knox S. (1995). "Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope Observations of Nova Circini 1995 and Nova Aquilae 1995". Astrophysical...
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  • list of large optical telescopes. For telescopes larger than 3 meters in aperture see List of largest optical reflecting telescopes. This list combines...
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  • on timescales of one second or less HUT – (telescope) Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, an ultraviolet telescope that operated from the cargo bay of the Space...
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    Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2010-12-09. "SkyandTelescope.com – News from Sky & Telescope –...
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    (PERSI); the other being the Ralph telescope. It resolves 1,024 wavelength bands in the far and extreme ultraviolet (from 50–180 nm), over 32 view fields...
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  • component Home-user test, a product marketing test Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, a space telescope Humla language, a Tibetic language of Nepal (ISO code:...
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    can be used to observe some near-ultraviolet and near-infrared radiation. Ultraviolet astronomy employs ultraviolet wavelengths between approximately...
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    thus impossible to observe using ground-based telescopes. The Earth's atmosphere is opaque to ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and gamma rays and is partially...
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    HCN Formation in Protoplanetary Disks with the Hubble Space Telescope" "Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectroscopy of HD 209458b: Evidence of Ionized...
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    PhD from Johns Hopkins, where he researched the spectra of comets using data from the International Ultraviolet Explorer space telescope. Since 2002 Weaver...
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    forming a galaxy. The GALEX satellite detected ultraviolet emissions that astronomers at Johns Hopkins University and the Carnegie Institution for Science...
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  • its flyby of Mercury, instruments began registering large amounts of ultraviolet radiation in the vicinity of Mercury that, according to one astronomer...
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    pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work inform modern understanding of the physics of ultraviolet light, and made...
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    Origins Spectrograph, became the most sensitive ultraviolet spectrograph ever installed on the telescope. Its far-UV channel is 30 times more sensitive...
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  • and Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University, in 1978 and 1980, respectively. His thesis involved far-ultraviolet observations of Jupiter and Saturn...
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