Juan Carlos Muñoz on Nostr: In case you're wondering why we bother building big telescopes instead of just using ...
In case you're wondering why we bother building big telescopes instead of just using interferometry:
1. Big telescopes allow us to detect faint stuff and small stuff, but with interferometry we only get the small stuff. We need a big light bucket to see the faint stuff.
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