Can amateur astronomers buy time on space telescopes? Who decides how the Hubble gets used and buys whom? What about terrestrial observatories? Can you go and buy time, you know, rent time? Yeah, excellent question. The big ones are all for professional use and even so, they're quite expensive.
In this Cosmic Queries episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan questions about radio and microwave telescopes, from the Hubble to the VLA to the James Webb Space Telescope.
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