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telescope

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Mirror arrangements for a reflecting telescope telescope, traditionally, a system of lenses, mirrors, or both, used to gather light from a distant object and form an image of it. Traditional o...

Maksutov telescope

(Encyclopedia)Maksutov telescope: see telescope. ...

Schmidt telescope

(Encyclopedia)Schmidt telescope: see telescope. ...

radio telescope

(Encyclopedia)radio telescope: see radio astronomy. ...

virtual telescope

(Encyclopedia)virtual telescope, a computerized interferometer (see interference) that merges the images from two or more telescopes to obtain a single, large, enhanced image. The image in each telescope is made fr...

Hubble Space Telescope

(Encyclopedia)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 c...

Spitzer Space Telescope

(Encyclopedia)Spitzer Space Telescope: see infrared astronomy; observatory, orbiting. ...

Webb Space Telescope

(Encyclopedia)Webb Space Telescope or James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is an infrared space telescope, the largest in space at its launc...

Space Infrared Telescope Facility

(Encyclopedia)Space Infrared Telescope Facility: see observatory, orbiting. ...

Mauna Kea Observatories

(Encyclopedia)Mauna Kea Observatories mouˈnə kāˈə [key], astronomical observatory complex located on Mauna Kea peak, the “white mountain” on the island of Hawaii, at an altitude of more than 13,600 ft (4,1...