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...taking supersharp pictures of space, the go-to telescope is the Hubble, in orbit above the earth. But astronomers can't just use the space telescope whenever they feel like it; they have to bid for time on the badly oversubscribed instrument. After about 2010, when the aging Hubble starts to fail, astronomers won't be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Souped-Up Telescope | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

Will adaptive optics make space telescopes obsolete? Not entirely. Space is still the best place to take supersharp pictures in ordinary light. And some radiation--ultraviolet, for example, and some wavelengths of infrared--can't penetrate the atmosphere at all. Moreover, telescopes radiate infrared light of their own, which contaminates celestial images. That's why NASA's plan to launch a Next Generation Space Telescope by 2009 still makes sense. With an 8-m mirror of its own, NGST will be able to see distant galaxies, for example, that no earthly telescope could ever see through the glare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hubble | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...sets are actually on their way from Sony, RCA, Panasonic and about 10 other manufacturers to showroom floors--and the first digital broadcasts will begin in a little over a month. This much anticipated debut would seem to be terrific news for tube lovers. As promised, the sets deliver supersharp digital pictures, wide-format movie-style screens and magnificent stereo surround sound. And thanks to the content-neutral nature of digital signals--"Bits are bits," they like to say in TV circles these days--you could wind up seeing web pages and e-mail on your HDTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HDTV Is Here! So What? | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...light of revelation, news that the Hubble Space Telescope was flawed appeared to be an unmitigated disaster. Because the telescope's main light-focusing mirror had been precision ground to the wrong specifications, the U.S. had evidently spent $1.5 billion on an instrument that may never take the promised supersharp pictures of the heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Who Needs the Hubble? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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