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What are some of the advantages of putting telescopes, even those sensitive to optical wavelengths, like the Hubble Space Telescope, in space above the Earth's atmosphere?

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The advantages of putting telescopes are determined. Space in the Earths atmosphere is examined.

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The advandatages of telescopes are:
<br>1.) Our eye can integrate the image for a limited time, while the telescope data can be integrated for much longer time. The integration of observed data, improves the SNR (signal to noise ...

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