Sentence examples for most important telescopes from inspiring English sources

Since its launching, Hubble has become one of astronomy's most important telescopes.

"Asteroids are hot, so Sentinel will have an infrared lens," said mission director Harold Reitsema, a veteran astronomer who discovered moons around Neptune and Saturn and designed some of the most important telescopes of our time.

Calling the Hubble "arguably the most important telescope in history," the panel said scientific returns from it were far from over and could be even greater if it were repaired and upgraded.

Perhaps most important, the telescope would be used primarily for SETI research.

It is generally considered to be the most important and productive telescope since the one Galileo used in Padua in 1610 to discover mountains on the Moon, the phases of Venus and the moons of Jupiter.

The House Appropriations Committee has approved a budget that would make deep cuts in planned spending on new space technologies, scale back NASA's two highest-priority unmanned missions — to Mars and a moon of Jupiter — and eliminate NASA's most important new space telescope (a successor to the Hubble), which is behind schedule and overbudget.

And always remember that the most important attribute of a telescope is not its magnification, but the size of its light-gathering aperture.

The diameter of the objective lens or mirror is the most important number describing a telescope.

The 100-inch telescope's most important discovery was American astronomer Edwin Hubble's determination of the distance to the Andromeda Nebula in 1924.

Two of the telescope's most important instruments — a spectrograph named STIS, which made the first atmospheric measurements of a planet around another star, and the Advanced Camera for Surveys — have failed.

The most important thing to consider is the telescope's aperture, or the size of the light-gathering part of the telescope.