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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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