Chinese researchers claim planned space telescope will surpass NASA's Hubble: Report
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China's space agency plans to launch the Xuntian space telescope in 2024 and says it will have higher optical capabilities than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The space telescope will orbit with the country's Tiangong space station. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.
Chinese astronomers have claimed that the optical capabilities of Xuntian will surpass NASA's Hubble, boasting that the new telescope can capture high-definition panoramic views of the universe with spatial resolution better than the NASA's telescope.
In an interview last year with China's state-run Xinhua news agency, Li Ran, project scientist of the CSST Scientific Data Reduction System, described the new telescope's observational capabilities as being better than Hubble's.
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