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Posted by michael on from the my-what-a-big-baseline-you-have dept.

prostoalex writes "Scientists at Gemini Observatory are using Internet2 to link telescopes worldwide and receive images that they say are sharper than those coming from Hubble."

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  1. It took till now by TamMan2000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is it just me or does this seem pretty obvious? Is there some technical difficulty in doing this that I don't understand?

    And on another note:
    If they can get hubble quality images from the ground now, what would we be able to see if we had multiple networked space telescopes in orbit?

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