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What? Hubble is (among other things) a visible-light telescope. From the wiki page: > Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to
by taneq 4y ago
What? Hubble is (among other things) a visible-light telescope. From the wiki page:
> Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to capture extremely high-resolution images with substantially lower background light than ground-based telescopes. It has recorded some of the most detailed visible light images, allowing a deep view into space.
Unless you want to play semantics about whether a camera “sees” or not, it’s clearly capturing images.
- mrtksn 4y agoDid I say something else?
- biorach 4y agoIt has a camera plus several other instruments. In this case it seems that the camera could not be used. The article is discussing the interpretation of the spectroscopy data. > Hubble can't photograph the AT2022dsb tidal event's mayhem up close... > This energetic collision was close enough to Earth and bright enough for the Hubble astronomers to do ultraviolet spectroscopy over a longer than normal period of time.
- kjs3 4y agoYou might want to read the actual article instead of running off to wikipedia because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Pay particular attention to the part where they go into detail that the discovery was 1) done with a spectrometer, not a camera and 2) it's UV, not visible light. Might temper that knee-jerk some.