Looking at Stars: The Need to be Closer

摘要

Both earth and space pose problems as locations of astronomical observatories. Because of the speed at which astronomy is progressing observatories must be in space in order for new information to continue being found. Earth-bound observatories have too many problems for astronomers to overcome and still get the results that they need. NASA's Great Observatories, the Hubble, Compton, Chandra, have shown astronomers galaxies of information ranging across the electromagnetic spectrum from visible light to gamma rays. In order for more discoveries to be made, we need to continue to have and use space-based observatories.