Cosmic Concepts: Advantages of Space Telescopes

This video is part of the “Cosmic Concepts” video series. It illustrates how space telescopes offer advantages to studying the universe. For example, they are above the blurring effects of Earth’s atmosphere, which affords a clearer view of the cosmos. The other major advantage of telescopes being located in space is that all wavelengths of light can be observed. An overview of NASA’s Great Observatories is provided, as well.