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To: Flick Lives

They use the orbit of the earth around the sun to get a much larger ‘aperture’. Still very, very impressive.


23 posted on 08/23/2017 12:47:02 PM PDT by Cruising Speed
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To: Cruising Speed
They use the orbit of the earth around the sun to get a much larger ‘aperture’.

Interesting. At 186 million miles in diameter, that is a really *big* telescope.

24 posted on 08/23/2017 12:51:30 PM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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