Light show. (Science Times).The Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first large optical orbiting observatory. Built from 1978 to 1990 at a cost of $1.5 billion, the HST (named for astronomer E. P. Hubble) was expected to provide the clearest view yet obtained of the universe. Using a Ritchey-Chrétien design that affords wider and flatter fields of view than traditional Cassegrain systems, the telescope has a 7.9-ft (2. brought deep space 1. deep space - The notional location of any program that has gone off the trolley. Especially used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected. "Uh oh. I should have had a prompt ten seconds ago. The program's in deep space somewhere." Compare buzz, catatonic, hyperspace. 2. into focus like never before. Now NASA is planning a fitting encore: a device so powerful it may detect some of the "first light" of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope, to be launched in 2010 at a cost of about $1.2 billion, will have a mirror with a light-gathering area six times as large as the Hubble's and a suite of more sensitive instruments. It will be sent into orbit far from Earth, and should be able to detect and analyze the faint, warm light produced when the first stars and galaxies formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang Big Bang The term applied to the liberalization in 1986 of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) when trading was automated., the theoretical beginning of the universe, some 14 billion years ago.
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