Transcription: For centuries, the only way mankind could observe the heavens was through ground-based telescopes. But to see the stars, these lenses have to see through the Earth's murky atmosphere, which muddies the view. So astronomers can never get a truly sharp picture of stars or galaxies using Earth-based telescopes. The cameras on board the Hubble Space Telescope have one special advantage over the Earth-based cameras. They're orbiting about 380 miles above the Earth, outside the Earth's atmosphere. The pictures the Hubble's cameras take are not distorted by the dust and gas in our atmosphere, such as ...
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