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I guess Rubin will be the last telescope built on the Earth surface right? Little use to have stronger eyes only to have them blinded...

• perilunar 1y ago
  Building telescopes in high-earth or solar orbit has other advantages too: you can make them much bigger, and don't have to account for atmospheric distortions, etc. The downside is cost of launching them, but the same SpaceX that's 'ruining' the images is also making it much cheaper to launch them into space.