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The telescope on board is 10 times as sensitive and has triple the resolution of NASA’s Kuiper Airborne Observatory, originally launched in 1975 on a c
by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
The telescope on board is 10 times as sensitive
and has triple the resolution of NASA’s Kuiper
Airborne Observatory, originally launched in
1975 on a converted C-141 military cargo plane,
and decommissioned in 1995. That telescope was
the first to spot the rings around Uranus.
"...the rings around Uranus."