Maybe it's a very small mirror and those are just tiny men.
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It's 6.5 meters in diameter! We're the largest space telescope ever built. :-)
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Can someone put its resolving power in human scale terms? Like 'you could see a 100w lightbulb from 100,000 miles away' or some such.
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Metres. Use metres.
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To quote the great Han Solo: "Great, kid! Don't get cocky". You're not in space yet. ;) OK, Greenbelt, Maryland is technically in space...
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how do you get to that number with such a shape? it has the same surface area as a truncated parabola of 6.5m diameter?
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"ever built" .. on Earth anyway :)
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why not make it bigger and go all out? Budget problem I presume?
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