... . Four years after NASA's foundation, which was in 1958, the idea of constructing a large space telescope was suggested by a National Academy of Sciences study group. NASA launched a small space observatory in 1968 that orbited Earth for the purposes of measuring galaxies, planets, and stars. Three years later the beginning ... of narrow-band and broadband filters the STIS imaging capability. STIS observations will lead to a greater understanding of the origin and evolution of galaxies, black holes in the nuclei of active galaxies, and star formation. When the Faint-Object Spectrograph (F...

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