Question

6. Explain why we have to observe stars and other astronomical objects from above Earth’s atmosphere in order to fully learn about their properties.

Answer 1

Due to earth’s atmosphere there is a lot of turbulence in air due to various of air mixture, smoke, smog. This disturbance will cause light rays from various stars and planetary bodies suffer a lot of deflection and they do not reach directly to our eyes and their view from earth get disturbed. So to fully understand the properties of stars scientists put telescope at high mountains or in space orbit. One such telescope Hubble Space Telescope is put in earth’s orbit which provide better view of planatary objects.