Ask Ethan: What could an array of space telescopes find?

<p>Out there in the deep, dark recesses of space are mysteries just waiting to be discovered. While the advances we&rsquo;ve made in telescopes, optics, instrumentation, and photon efficiency have brought us unprecedented views of what&rsquo;s out there, arguably our largest advances have come from going to space. Viewing the Universe from Earth&rsquo;s surface is like looking out at the sky from the bottom of a swimming pool; the atmosphere itself distorts or completely obscures our views, depending on what wavelength we&rsquo;re measuring. But from space, there&rsquo;s no atmospheric interference at all, enabling us to see details that would be completely inaccessible otherwise.</p> <p>Although Hubble and JWST are the two best-known examples, they&rsquo;re simply one-off observatories. If we had an array of them, instead, how much more could we know? That&rsquo;s the question of Nathan Trepal, who writes in to ask:</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-what-could-an-array-of-space-telescopes-find-8e3fd497e196"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>