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a telescope that dodged the one thing ruining every telescope on earth: earth's atmosphere.
means an observatory launched into orbit to see the universe without air, clouds, or city lights blurring the view.
from the idea dates to 1946, when astronomer Lyman Spitzer argued a telescope above the atmosphere could outsee any on the ground; it took nasa and the ussr decades of rocket progress to actually try it.
hubble's flawlaunched in 1990 with a mirror ground wrong by microns
fix missionastronauts gave hubble glasses in orbit, 1993
webb's trickunfolds like origami after launch, then hides from the sun
cold mattersinfrared scopes must stay near absolute zero to work