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semaphoreP on Nov 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Telescope That ‘Ate Astronomy’ Is on Track to Surp...

Oh yeah, those do cover the same wavelength range. The atmosphere of the Earth absorbs a lot of the light and has a strong thermal background though. The sensitivity of JWST is orders of magnitude better than ground/airborne observatories [1], so things that JWST want to do will be basically impossible from the ground.

[1] http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/multiwavelength-astronomy/imag...

welterde on Nov 23, 2016 [–]

Oh I am perfectly aware. It's just not all projects require JWST-level sensitivity and they are somewhat less known.

Also I think SOFIA in visitor-mode is hard to beat when it comes to the coolness-factor.

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