Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same. Also, isobare [ahy-suh-bair] /ËaÉª sÉËbÉÉr/ (Show IPA). Physics, Chemistry. one of two or more atoms having equal atomic weights but different atomic numbers.
Hubble Essentials. With the Hubble Space Telescope on board, Discovery begins its roll maneuver after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center on April 24, 1990. This low-angle view of the launch shows the shuttle atop the external tank, flanked by two solid rocket boosters, as it rises into the sky.
Both images reveal galaxies that are too faint to be seen by ground-based telescopes, or even in Hubble's previous faraway looks, called the Hubble Deep Fields (HDFs), taken in 1995 and 1998. Hubble takes us to within a stone's throw of the big bang itself, says Massimo Stiavelli of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., and the HUDF project lead.