Space Telescope

noun

1. U.S. Aerospace. a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) optical telescope designed for use in orbit around the earth.

Example Sentences

Such a detection is possible today only if the lone gamma-ray telescope in orbit, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is pointing in the direction of the supernova at the time it explodes.

From Science Daily

The researchers used machine learning to analyze data from three major sources: the European Space Agency's Gaia mission -- a space telescope that has studied over a billion stars in our galaxy -- along with observations from the 2MASS and Pan-STARRS1 surveys.

From Science Daily

It takes an enormous amount of resources and a tremendous number of people working together with a sustained investment to create something and to run and to launch and deploy and calibrate and keep maintaining something like the James Webb Space Telescope.

From Salon

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun.

From Salon

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.

From Salon