High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.

Steven Magee
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For the past few years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting the Earth in an orbit that takes it up to about 18 miles above our home planet. What's really surprising about the Hubble is that it's been doing this while also orbiting around a black hole (the one at the center of our galaxy). How did astronomers make this work? They had to get rid of all of the oxygen in their heads by breathing pure nitrogen, and they were forced to sleep in a tent. But this really is what you need to do if you want to study the universe with Hubble.

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