Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

R. V. Pole Memorial Lecture: The Hubble space telescope

Open Access Open Access

Abstract

Nothing in astronomy so captures the imagination as the large-scale nature and history of the universe. Therein the greatest potential of the Hubble space telescope (HST)—to see ancient events. With the launch of NASA’s HST. astronomers will be able to measure stars and quasistellar object 50·times fainter·than the 200-in. Hale telescopes to the category of dinosaur or replace planetary Adorna; Mountain. The HST sacacle of recording exquisite images of ai! frooonvcai objects with unparalleled shaipness. it will not reduce ground-based astro. to rategorv of dinosaur nr replace planetary spacecraft such as the Mariners, ' lung. voyagers, and Galileo. However, it will ...o-mpiernent there in Important ways and allow .-icuct completely new types of investigation, A few of these observations, presently planned, will pdff some conjectures as to some ot the surprises (Plenary paper)

© 1986 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
R. V. Pole Memorial Lecture: The Hubble space telescope

JAMES A. WESTPHAL
MAA1 International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 1986

High-power lasers: applications in mesospheric remote sensing and astronomy (R. V. Pole Memorial Plenary Lecture)

Chester S. Gardner
JMC2 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1991

The hubble Space Telescope: New and improved

H. S. (Peter) Stockman
JMA3 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1997

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved