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Antarctic Telescope?

Posted by michael on from the draw-straws-for-who-has-to-wipe-the-snow-off dept.

angkor pastes "'A novel Antarctic telescope with 16-m diameter mirrors would far outperform the Hubble Space Telescope, and could be built at a tiny fraction of its cost, says a scientist from the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney, Australia.'"

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  1. Some limitations: by Blackeagle_Falcon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not only are you limited to the southern sky, but you can't use it for months at a time (during the S. hemisphere summer). Compare that to Hubble which gets a look at the entire sky as it orbits the earth, and can operate 24/7.