The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hubble Telescope \Hub"ble Tel"e*scope\, Hubble Space Telescope \Hub"ble Space Tel"e*scope\, n. A large astromical optical telescope placed into orbit around the earth, from which, in the absence of absorption and distortion by the earth's atmosphere, clear high-resolution images of astronomical objects can be obtained in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths. The telescope was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990. Since then the telescope has taken thousands of images, many of them unique, recording never before seen astronomical phenomena. Service missions were performed in 1993 and 1997, during which astronauts upgraded or replaced equipment on the telescope.
Usage examples of "hubble telescope".
We have had close-up photos of two (Gaspra and Ida, the latter a double asteroid of two bodies, Ida and Dactyl, bound to each other by gravity), and we have Hubble Telescope images of Vesta and other large asteroids.
For example, observations with the Hubble telescope of the galaxy known as M87 reveal that it contains a disk of gas 130 light-years across rotating about a central object two thousand million times the mass of the sun.
For oceanographers, SOSUS became the Hubble Telescope of undersea exploration.
Thinking of utility, she'd pulled on some stretch pants, a Hubble telescope T-shirt because it was the only thing she could find that would mark her as perhaps a scientist, and some low-top sneakers.
They took turns, describing the advances in computers, the widespread use of the Internet and wireless communication, the space shuttle missions, the Hubble telescope, unmanned space probes, discoveries by NUMA in the field of oceanography, and advances in medicine.
Instead of gigantic, costly, ultra-high-tech, one-shot efforts like NASA's Hubble Telescope (crippled by bad optics) or NASA's Galileo (currently crippled by a flaw in its communications antenna) these micro-rovers are cheap, and legion, and everywhere.
Their fee would launch a Hubble telescope, but the moguls will see the show with their Wheaties.
It was the ultimate roller-coaster ride against a backdrop as varied and spectacular as the clearest of night skies, if only the naked eye came with the range and sensitivity of the Hubble telescope.