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Europe turns its new $1.5 billion space telescope on, and happily it works (arstechnica.com)
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[-] tal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s a hell of a lot of money for a single telescope.

I mean, right here you can see telescopes being sold for $49.99 on Amazon. It makes one question the entire budgetary process behind this Euclid scope.

EDIT: Not to mention that the Amazon one comes with a tripod, and as best I can tell from this article and Wikipedia, the Euclid scope doesn't have anything of the sort. If we could get Josef Aschbacher here right now, I think that the no-tripod issue would definitely be an incisive question to raise with him.

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