FIGURE 2. Images taken from space have superb spatial resolution.
From the following article:
18 years of science with the Hubble Space Telescope
Julianne J. Dalcanton
Nature 457, 41-50(1 January 2009)
doi:10.1038/nature07621
Images of a distant galaxy taken from the ground (with the Subaru 8-m telescope (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) on Mauna Kea) are blurred in comparison with images of the same galaxy made with the HST. Images courtesy of NASA.
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