The Hopkins ultraviolet telescope

A new capability in ultraviolet astronomy will be realized in 1986 when the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope is carried aloft by the space shuttle. Designed to measure far ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet radiation from a broad range of astronomical objects, this telescope will complement the Space Telescope's observations of the same objects at longer wavelengths. Its first shuttle mission is timed to coincide with the passage of Halley's Comet through the earth's neighborhood. Observations of the comet, as well as of stars, interstellar matter, supernova remnants, galaxies, and quasars, will be made at previously unexplored wavelengths.