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Why do astronomers put telescopes in space? The Earth's atmosphere is about 120 miles thick and anything we see from the surface of the Earth is distorted by the water vapor and debris that is in the air.
next page. To get around Earth's atmosphere, astronomers in the1960s began attaching telescopes to huge balloons to carry them above the lower atmosphere's obscuring effects. By the early 1970s, scientists attached small telescopes aboard high-flying Lear jets and sounding rockets, and discovered several thousand infrared sources.