Cosmic Perspective (Looseleaf)
Cosmic Perspective (Looseleaf)
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A suitable telescope for observing matter around ablack hole from following telescopes and rank them from best to worst for this observing task.

  1. An X-ray telescope, 2 meters in diameter, located at theSouth Pole
  2. An infrared telescope, 2 meters in diameter,on a spacecraft in orbit around Earth and observing at awavelength of micrometres( 2×106 ) m
  3. An infraredtelescope, 10 meters in diameter, equipped with adaptiveoptics, located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and observing ata wavelength of micrometres ( 105 m)
  4. A radio telescope,300 meters in diameter, located in Puerto Rico

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