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The Telescope of the 2030s
In what they termed “a call to arms,” an organization of American university astronomers said last week that NASA should begin planning now to launch a sort of supersize version of the Hubble Space Telescope in the 2030s to look for life beyond Earth. This High Definition Space Telescope would be five times as big and 100 times as sensitive as the Hubble, with a mirror nearly 40 feet in diameter, and would orbit the sun about a million miles from Earth.
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An interesting read I cannot imagine a telescope with such tech!
Oh yes please! Fund this!
Ok, I thought the James Webb space telescope was the upgrade to hubble? If I'm reading this right they are saying we need to start looking at an upgrade for that?