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To: diverteach
And just what advantage and how could this top what we get from the hubble space telescope?

It's much larger and thus has far more light-gathering capability than Hubble.

And adaptive optics techniques that constantly and automatically compensate for atmospheric distortion mow greatly reduce the advantage of optical space telescopes over ground-based ones.

16 posted on 04/14/2013 9:04:17 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

If they could put this telescope on the Moon just think about how far it could peer into the universe.


19 posted on 04/14/2013 9:06:38 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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