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It has two distinct advantages. Firstly, it is entirely out of atmosphere, meaning no atmospheric turbulence can spoil the view.

Second, more significant for items such as the Deep Field images, it does not suffer the problem that plagues astronomers every night, namely that eventually the object being imaged will set and disappear from view. The Hubble Space Telescope can point at a region of space and sit collecting light to form an image for hours or even days.

2007-06-19 12:19:24 · answer #1 · answered by Jason T 7 · 1 0

Being a former director of a teaching observatory the primary advantages are:
No atmosphere. The Hubble sets in space and stays a consistent temperature. It does not have atmospheric disturbances while imaging.
Weather. Most observatories have to deal with clouds, no matter where they are on the Earth. If you do some research you will find that most observatories can operate <50% of their scheduled time. (Radio observatories can operate through some clouds)
The Hubble can, as one poster has stated, sit pointed in one location for days collecting light for images. It doesn't suffer from the rotation of the Earth and require a clock-drive to track objects.
The Hubble has advanced humans understanding of our universe more in the time it has been in space then numerous centuries have taught us.

2007-06-19 21:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anthony W 3 · 0 0

Earthbound telescopes suffer from atmospheric distortions of images seen through them, similar to looking down a hot road and seeing the shimmering of heat waves emanate from the road. The Hubble telescope, however, encounters no such abberations nor very much ambient light Nor ground tremors as a matter of fact.

2007-06-20 07:14:56 · answer #3 · answered by david37863 2 · 0 0

The main advantage is the clarity that can be obtained without Earth`s atmosphere interference.

2007-06-19 16:58:41 · answer #4 · answered by srmm 5 · 0 0

It's completely out of the atmosphere, so there is no blurring or refraction from the gases in the atmosphere. It's a much clearer view.

2007-06-19 16:54:51 · answer #5 · answered by peacetimewarror 4 · 1 0

No terrestrial light pollution getting in the way of the fainter/more distant stellar bodies, and more clear images of nearer objects.

2007-06-19 17:44:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

atmospheric interference

2007-06-19 16:53:35 · answer #7 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0 0

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