Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

> Having only 1, soon 0 space-based telescopes is cutting it very thin. Having 5-10 would increase our research a lot as more things could be observed.

Apparently they went the other way and instead of multiple Hubble-equivalent telescopes they build one which has equivalent sharpness of images but a much larger field of view, so can take images 100 times as large as what Hubble can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: