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by LeifCarrotson
1798 days ago
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I'd love to see more emphasis on smaller, more numerous space telescopes. JWST will be great when it launches, and it's impossible to overstate how awesome Hubble has been, but space is big and time on these largest scopes will be very valuable. There's a ton of work being done on ordinary 1m and smaller telescopes. As you say, space has big advantages in atmospheric, temperature, sun, and weather factors that may allow a smaller orbiting telescope to do work that would require a larger terrestrial scope. I'd love to see enough scopes in space that (1) ordinary Astro 102 students could do a lab assignment to point a satellite-based telescope at an object and take an image and (2) researchers could have more frequent surveys of the sky to find transient objects. |
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