Français Contact Us Help Search Canada Site Home About CSA Image Gallery Careers Resources  Audiences  .Media  .KidSpace  .Educators  .Industry  .Scientific community  Activities  .Earth Observation  .Satellites  .Science  .Exploration  Bulletin  .APOGEE John H. Chapman Space Centre David Florida Laboratory  .Virtual Visit   Index A to Z You are here: home | sciences | astronomy Astronomy From the gigantic Hubble to the tiny MOST, space telescopes and space astronomy open a window onto unimaginably violent phenomena, objects of great beauty and a universe that is expanding at an ever-increasing rate toward an unknown destiny. Space Telescopes MOST – A tiny satellite probes the mysteries of the universe A space telescope seeks to discover what happened in the first minutes following the Big Bang (FUSE) James Webb Space Telescope, successor to Hubble Space observatories Herschel Space Observatory to have two Canadian instruments Mapping the sky with Planck Surveyor The VLBI space observatory links Earth and sky Balloon-borne telescope BLAST will conduct unique galactic surveys   Updated: 2005/06/27 Important Notices