The best-known is probably the Hubble Space Telescope , which operates at optical frequencies.
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Finding them in ever-more-distant galaxies was a primary reason for building the Hubble space telescope.
This confirms a hypothesis from the Hubble Space Telescope, which detected signs of ozone around that Moon.
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He then examined a picture taken by the Hubble space telescope of a galaxy several billion light-years away.
P4 was discovered in 2011 in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Future aperture upper limits on balloon-borne telescopes are expected to be some 2.5-meters, about the size of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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For the first time, scientists working at the Hubble Space Telescope were able to directly observe a quasar accretion disc.
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Here, just so you can compare, are photos that the Hubble Space Telescope took of the planet Pluto, the outermost planet.
Merlin's images in the radio region of the spectrum are of comparable quality to those of the Hubble Space Telescope observing optically.
For more than two decades now, the Hubble Space Telescope has served up some of the most spectacular astronomical images ever made.
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Information on Project Galileo and the Hubble Space Telescope is also available.
In the distant galaxy NGC 5806, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a supernova that happened 80 million years ago.
When combined, the data collected from the dishes will provide a level of detail some 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.
Indeed, at some wavelengths it should out-perform the Hubble space telescope, which does not even have the handicap of looking through the atmosphere.
That is four times as much as the Hubble space telescope, a reasonably big piece of science, churned out in its first two decades.
Sometimes they need a little help from something like the Hubble Space Telescope, but its our peepers that ultimately spotted Pluto's fifth moon, P5.
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The transit of Venus can't be observed with the Hubble Space Telescope because the extreme brightness of the sun would destroy the telescope and its instruments.
He joined Nasa in 1980 and is a veteran of four space shuttle flights, commanding the mission that launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990.
On 3 November, NASA and the European Space Agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had captured the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star.
Follow-up observations are also being planned using other ground-based instruments, as well as several space observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Just a fortnight ago, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope identified water vapour in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, albeit a gaseous exoplanet some 150 light years away.
At its best, RadioAstron will be able to resolve points separated by an angle of just 7 microarcseconds, about 10, 000 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
On Wednesday, researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced the detection of P5, a tiny moon measuring just 6 to 15 miles (10 to 24 kilometers) across.
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Notable highlights in the ship's career have included the first construction mission to the ISS by a US orbiter, and the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
They've dubbed it a cosmic ghost, and hope to get a better look at it next year when they can get some telescope time on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Balloon-based planetary science could potentially save NASA hundreds of millions of dollars when compared to the cost of analogous spacecraft, while offering almost Hubble Space Telescope-quality images and once-in-a-lifetime observing opportunities.
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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a supernova in the distant galaxy NGC 5806, which is a relatively unremarkable galaxy located about 80 million light years from Earth.
Riess and colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure supernovae that are very far away, showing that dark energy must be responsible for how the universe appears to expand faster and faster.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently spied a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a rare mid-weight black hole that suggests the black hole was once at the center of a dwarf galaxy.
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