China is building its own Hubble-like space telescope with a 2.5-billion pixel camera

The Chinese Space Station Telescope will provide the Middle Kingdom with a Hubble-class view of the heavens - with a 2.5-billion pxel camera to boot.

April 28, 2021 · 1 min · 74 words · Alexander York

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Looking high, looking low, looking everywhere I go…

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If you plan for one year, plant rice.

If you plan for ten years, plant trees.

China is building its own Hubble-like space telescope with a 2.5-billion pixel camera

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Video credit: New China TV (government media).

But, it will have areally cool telescope.

A detailed image of a crater and its surrounding area on Mars, recorded by the Tianwen-1 orbiter.

This article was originally published onThe Cosmic Companionby James Maynard, founder and publisher of The Cosmic Companion.

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