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I thought Earth bound telescopes had problems with their resolution due to the atmosphere and light pollution no matter how big their mirrors are which is why I thought they placed Hubble in space?

While there are still many limitations to earth based telescopes, adaptive optics can minimize many of them.

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Very interesting. They’re also putting it in Chile to minimize light pollution.

I saw a show on some telescope that had two mirrors (I guess two for 3d???) and it had a bunch of little actuators the could deform the mirrors; I didn’t know they could use that to compensate for the atmosphere.

I can’t wait to see the images. The ones from Hubble are incredible.

It’s too bad that it’s not the USA doing this, are we surrendering our lead in science or what?