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by atonse 2155 days ago
To be clear I meant is it in a fixed position relative to earth? I know if you’re photographing galaxies, they move so little relative to us that they might as well be stationary. But isn’t Hubble in an orbit?
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Motion on the scale of “orbit” is utterly irrelevant on these scales. Rotation around an internal axis is the only thing which matters, and that’s something space telescopes are designed around.