the.com/space telescope
A camera above the sky's dust and glare, so it finally sees things as they are.
means An observatory launched into orbit so its view of stars, galaxies, and planets isn't blurred or blocked by Earth's atmosphere.
from Straightforward compound: 'space' (from Latin spatium, an extent or expanse) plus 'telescope,' coined in the early 1600s from Greek tele- 'far' and skopein 'to look' — literally a far-looker. The idea of lifting one above the atmosphere was proposed well before rockets could do it; by the time Hubble launched in 1990, the name simply described where the telescope now lived, not how it worked.
- no atmosphere
- blur-free vision, skips earth's smudgy air
- infrared edge
- james webb reads heat from galaxies, not light
- orbit, not space travel
- stays put, just dodges the ground
- deep time viewer
- sees light billions of years old, literally past