1.   The Hubble space telescope takes clearer pictures of stars than earthbound telescopes.

2.   The space telescope has taken the clearest pictures ever of Pluto.

3.   As one of just four large major space telescopes envisioned by NASA for its post-Apollo years and dubbed the Great Observatories, Chandra is all about superlatives.

4.   Basically, it involved sending up the Hubble space telescope whose sole purpose was to peer deep into universe.

5.   By then, of course, entirely new generations of space telescopes will be taking shape in the labs.

6.   Discovery commander Ken Bowersox and his crew plan to rendezvous with the space telescope early Thursday.

7.   Early in the next century, monstrous space telescopes may glimpse the blue seas and brownish-green continents of other planets, far beyond our solar system.

8.   Finding wavelengths where interference is low will be part of the planning process for adding new reception capabilities for space telescopes, he said.

9.   For them, a space telescope simply represented a chance to take on one of the fundamental controversies in cosmology.

10.   Getting to use the Resolution and its unmatched capabilities is as precious an opportunity for geologists as observation time on the Hubble space telescope is for astronomers.