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How do space telescopes point themselves?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Palskos Eyeballs

We've been able to look at the stars and other galaxies from our point here on Earth. We now have more than a few space telescopes out there in orbit and beyond orbit, looking at the rest of the universe. But those can be obscured by all the air that's between us and space. So we have this other awesome set of eyeballs we built that are actually out there in space above the atmosphere and can see much more clearly - although they can't yet be quite as large.

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