its a problem because when astronomers try to do research it has to be a perfectly clear night or else they cant see but if your in space since theres no atmosphere you could research all the time
Mostly, it doesn't. The only time the Shuttle is in the atmosphere is for about 3 minutes on launch, and most of the exhaust is water vapor.
Most spacecraft that leave orbit and reenter the atmosphere burn up, but this does not contribute much in pollution unless nuclear material makes it to the surface.
The greatest hazard created is that orbital space is now cluttered with debris, making it a more dangerous place to go.
The earth's atmosphere causes star light to shimmer and blur due to the motion of the air above the telescope. The atmosphere filters out a lot of the light. This is why the big observatories are up high e.g. in the Andes. The air is thinner (i.e. less atmosphere), so the stars are brighter and the air clearer.
Air pollution carries many heavy, dense gases (one of them being carbon dioxide). This makes ot difficult to see through it and into the night sky, however not all the gases in Air Pollution affect astronomers vision!
The biggest problems that astronomers face, as scientists, is that they CANNOT do repeatable experiments. They can't (yet!) build a star from scratch and observe its entire life cycle, or perform any real tests, or even go there and perform close-up observations.
Everything that they do is simply observing, from here.
It doesn't effect them; it affects them.The atmosphere absorbs part of the light that goes through it. The main problem, however, is that the atmosphere is moving about all the time; this results in changes (due to small-scale refraction), which severely affect the image quality, compared to a space-based telescope.
The Earths atmosphere scatters, reflects and distorts light from space. This is why stars appear to "twinkle" at night.
Astronomy is mostly concerned with things OUTSIDE the atmosphere.
The "twinkle" in the poem is due to refractions in the atmosphere ...
so we're talking about dimming, displacement, and distortion of what can be seen.
Observations from Earth-based telescopes are obscured by the atmosphere.
Earth based telescopes have to see through the atmosphere and all the dust it contains. space telescopes like Hubble have nothing but clearspace to see through.
because looking through the Earth's atmosphere can distort the incoming light.
Radiation other than light and radio waves hardly penetrates Earth's atmosphere.
Earth's atmosphere does not limit a telescope's resolving power.
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Observations from Earth-based telescopes are obscured by the atmosphere.
Light enters space telescope without distortion from Earth's atmosphere
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Telescopes on Earth have to look through the atmosphere (air) which distorts the image. Telescopes in space dont have to look through the atmosphere and so the image is a lot clearer.
The main advantage is that it avoids distortion from Earth's atmosphere.
Earth based telescopes have to see through the atmosphere and all the dust it contains. space telescopes like Hubble have nothing but clearspace to see through.
because looking through the Earth's atmosphere can distort the incoming light.
The earth's atmosphere doesn't let these rays reach the ground, so the telescopes are placed in orbit where they can receive the rays.
Radiation other than light and radio waves hardly penetrates Earth's atmosphere.
Earth's atmosphere does not limit a telescope's resolving power.
The Earth's atmosphere provides interference to optical telescopes because the molecules in the air scatter and disrupt light. Many telescopes are placed at high elevation because the atmosphere is thinner and will cause less interference.