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Why does the Hubble Space Telescope take clearer pictures than other telescopes?

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Space-based telescopes like Hubble get a much clearer view of the universe than most of their ground-based counterparts. ... Ground-based telescopes can't do the same, because the Earth's atmosphere absorbs a lot of the infrared and ultraviolet light that passes through it.

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