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)
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