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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by aptwebapps on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:37PM (#14986207)
What do you mean by the two types of technology converging?
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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by andy_ppp on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:54PM (#14986254)
Launching huge telescopes (and possibly assemble them) into space...?
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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by wtvanhest on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:05PM (#14986300)
No, I mean ground based telescope tech and space based tech. Both have different limits and advantages.
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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by deepsun on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:37AM (#14986611)
There is at least one space telescope that connects with ground-based telescopes using interferometry, so in some sense, they could be called one telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spektr-R
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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by andy_ppp on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:51PM (#14986468)
Isn’t it size vs astmopheric noise? Or are there loads of other factors?
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