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Q: What is one disadvantage of an astronomical telescope in orbit around the earth?
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Where is the Chandra telescope located?

It is in the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle in India.


What invention used by Galileo helped prove Copernicus theory that the earth revolves around the sun?

The astronomical telescope.


What is the telescope that is in orbit around the earth?

The telescope in orbit around the earth as of 2010 is the Hubble Telescope.


How did Galileo support this theory after he invented the telescope?

Although Galileo's telescope was the first to be used for astronomical purposes, he didn't invent the telescope. A man named Hans Lipperhey invented the telescope. Many people claimed to have invented the telescope however Hans Lipperhey was the only one to apply for a patent.


What are the advantage of using a telescope?

The main disadvantage of a gamma telescope is that the rays penetrate everything making it difficult to reflect them. The advantage is that they can view wavelengths outside of the Earth's atmosphere.


Where is the telescope?

In orbit around Earth.


Where is the Chandra telescope?

In orbit around Earth.


What is an astronomical year?

An astronomical year is a unit of time, the amount of time it takes for the Earth to pass around the sun.


What did newton use to examine the gravity around the earth?

telescope


Where is the Hubble Space Telescope?

In outer space; in orbit around Earth.


Were is the Hubble telescope based?

The Hubble is in orbit around planet earth.


How was the telescope a contribution to society?

it led to the discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, not that the earth is the center of the universe