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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by positr0n on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:27PM (#34363609)
What would be the benefit of the telescope orbiting other planets than earth?
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by midoridensha on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:36AM (#34364325)
I can't imagine any, besides redundancy and more observation time.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by throwawaymaths on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:42AM (#34364981)
Interferometry.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by mnw21cam on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:02AM (#34366642)
There's definitely a benefit to placing a decent telescope outside the asteroid belt. From Earth, we get a lot of light reflected from the Sun from dust orbiting somewhere between Earth and 2 AU from the Sun, which pollutes our space images - it's called the Zodiacal Light [0]. A telescope outside this light pollution would be able to see faint objects much more clearly and easily than Webb.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiacal_light

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