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So why exactly can we not get a better look at it as it is leaving? With all our earth- and spacebound telescopes [1] (some are sitting at Earth-Sun Lagrange po

So why exactly can we not get a better look at it as it is leaving? With all our earth- and spacebound telescopes [1] (some are sitting at Earth-Sun Lagrange points) I would imagine we could. Being too far away behind the sun seems an unlikely argument to me. === [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes

grkvlt 9y ago
The only working telescope at a Lagrange point is Gaia [0] at Earth-Sun L2, but it is an astrometry instrument, designed to measure the position and brightness of various stars, rather than generic deep-space imaging. The Herschel Space Observatory [1] is also at the Earth-Sun L2 point, and has a 3.5m IR telescope, but ran out of coolant in 2013 and is now defunct. Interestingly, these are both ESA missions, not NASA. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Space_Observatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Space_Observatory
- rsynnott 9y ago
  NASA was involved in Herschel to an extent.