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HST

American  
Or H.S.T.,
  1. Hawaii Standard Time.


HST British  

abbreviation

  1. high speed train

  2. Hubble Space Telescope

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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After another HST observation in 2006, Kalas concluded that a bright object visible in images from both 2004 and 2006 was a planet.

From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026

HST last night, @NOAA's #GOESWest 🛰️ captured the eruption of Hawaii's #MaunaLoa volcano, inside @Volcanoes_NPS.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022

By orbiting Earth, HST would have a line of sight free of the optical distortions endemic to our planet’s atmosphere.

From Scientific American • Dec. 25, 2021

The dearth of z ~ 10 galaxies in all HST legacy fields – the rapid evolution of the galaxy population in the first 500 Myr.

From Nature • May 15, 2018

Using gravitational lensing with HST to see the most distant galaxies.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016