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36: Stargazing with Team Supermassive

The Supermassive Podcast

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Exploring Telescopes During Pandemics

In space, the thing that you're limited by is the size of your telescope. So even if you start building a bigger and bigger telescope, you're still going to be limited by what's known as atmospheric seeing. Any turbulence in the atmosphere is going to distort your crystal clear picture of whatever you're looking at in the universe. And so what about space telescopes? What's the benefit of using them over ground based telescope? Yes. I'm actually hoping to get some time on the very large telescope in Chile,. That place that Robert was talking about before in the middle of the desert in Chile. It's probably going to be remote observing from here.

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