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Dust also greatly degrades earth based telescopes abilities.

• dredmorbius 5y ago
  Skyglow, atmospheric distortion, atmospheric absorption of specific frequencies, wind, the Earth's inclination, orbit, and rotation (limits time-on-target for any specific target of interest), local conditions (static electricity being a major issue for the ESO in Chile, given elevation and lack of humidity, all electronics must be static-tolerant or resistant), etc., etc. Not that space isn't also hard, but each environment has both affordances and limitations.
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