In order for the telescope and the instruments to be able to take these faint infrared signals, the telescope itself has to be very, very, very cold. That's because if it was warm, it would sort of glow and see itself essentially. And so there's a lot of good reasons to put telescopes in that part of space. Eventually on the dark side of the moon, right? Yes. I was putting Hubble telescopes on the moon.

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