Earth's best view of the stars – Antarctica's Dome C

A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides the best star-viewing site on Earth, according to research published today in Nature.

Australian researchers have shown than a ground-based telescope in Antarctica can take images almost as good as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, at a fraction of the cost.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news1179.html">Earth's best view of the stars – Antarctica's Dome C</a></p> <p>A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides <b>the best star-viewing site on Earth</b>, according to <a class="directory" href="http://www.physorg.com/search/research">research</a> published today in Nature. <br /> <br />Australian researchers have shown than a ground-based telescope in Antarctica can take images almost as good as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, at a fraction of the cost. </p>