(the) Hubble Space Telescope

(the) Hubble Space Telescope
a large US ↑telescope put into space in 1990 by ↑NASA. It is named after the US ↑astronomer Edwin Hubble and provides a much clearer view of the universe than could be obtained from the ground. Three months after it began to operate, it found a ‘black hole’ with a mass of 300 million suns.

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