Hubble telescope

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Hubble telescope

(Astronautics) a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges Also called Hubble space telescope

[named after Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer]

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