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		| Originally posted by jwells777 The obvious advantage is that it is much cheaper to build and maintain a ground based telescope.
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 What about atmospheric interference from pollution?
I was out on a boat on the Atlantic one evening and I looked up at the stars.  Being a city-boy most of my life, I almost wet myself when I realized that you could actually *see* some of the clouds from the Hubble pictures!