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The Most Powerful Telescope Ever Made

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

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Is the Sun Shield Really Cold?

i was wondering about this ecause i heard that you need the telescope to be as cold as possilike why? Does a telescope need to be freezing cold? But because it's measuring like, heat signatures and temperatures and electromagnetic information. I if it was hot or warm, it would be radiating and distort again. Nto we ot the far off like, it would clearly disrupt the mirrors, i right? And no, that's o just to keep the sun and all the heat from the earth, ye, from disrupting the image.

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