Name Two Reasons Why Astronomers Might Use a Space Telescope

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Essay

Name two reasons why astronomers might use a space telescope over a ground-based telescope.

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The minimum hardware and software specifications needed for a computer application to run efficiently.

Scientific Notation

A method of expressing numbers as a product of a coefficient and a power of ten, used to easily represent very large or very small numbers.

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