The Hubble Space Telescope

Abstract

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which is scheduled to be launched in December 1989, is one of the most ambitious and demanding projects in space astronomy every undertaken. Operating above the Earth's atmosphere, HST will provide astronomers with a far clearer and much more detailed view of the Universe throughout the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. Observations obtained with HST are therefore expected to have a profound impact on nearly all fields of modern astronomy. -from Authors