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==List of telescopes and arrays by angular resolution== <!---This is a basic list for expansion, before being moved to the dedicated article, which allready exists as a redirect here---> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; width:90%; font-size:95%;" |- ! Name || class="unsortable"| Image ||data-sort-type="number"| Angular resolution ([[arc seconds]])|| [[Wavelength]] || Type || Site || Year |- | [[Global mm-VLBI Array]] (successor to the ''Coordinated Millimeter VLBI Array'')|| || 0.000012 (12 μas)|| radio (at 1.3 cm) || [[very long baseline interferometry]] array of different [[radio telescope]]s || a range of locations on Earth and in space<ref name="Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy 2022">{{cite web | title=Images at the Highest Angular Resolution in Astronomy | website=Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | date=2022-05-13 | url=https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2022/2 | access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref> || 2002 - |- | [[Very Large Telescope]]/[[PIONIER (VLTI)|PIONIER]]|| [[File:Paranal and the Pacific at sunset (dsc4088, retouched, cropped).jpg|50px]] || 0.001 (1 mas)|| light (1-2 [[micrometre]])<ref name="de Zeeuw p. ">{{cite journal | last=de Zeeuw | first=Tim | title=Reaching New Heights in Astronomy - ESO Long Term Perspectives | journal=The Messenger | year=2017 | volume=166 | arxiv=1701.01249 | page=2| bibcode=2016Msngr.166....2D }}</ref> || largest [[optical astronomy|optical]] array of 4 [[reflecting telescope]]s || [[Paranal Observatory]], [[Antofagasta Region]], Chile || 2002/2010 - |- | [[Hubble Space Telescope]]|| [[File:HST.jpg|50px]] || 0.04 || light (near 500 nm)<ref name="NASA 2007">{{cite web | title=Hubble Space Telescope | website=NASA | date=2007-04-09 | url=https://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/webcasts/shuttle/sts109/hubble-qa.html#:~:text=In%20visible%20light%20(at%20wavelengths,by%20about%2040%20arc%20seconds. | access-date=2022-09-27}}</ref> || [[space telescope]] || [[Geocentric orbit|Earth orbit]] || 1990 - |- | [[James Webb Space Telescope]]|| [[File:JWST.jpg|50px]] || 0.1<ref name="Dalcanton Seager Aigrain Battel p. ">{{cite arXiv | last1=Dalcanton | first1=Julianne | last2=Seager | first2=Sara | last3=Aigrain | first3=Suzanne | last4=Battel | first4=Steve | last5=Brandt | first5=Niel | last6=Conroy | first6=Charlie | last7=Feinberg | first7=Lee | last8=Gezari | first8=Suvi | last9=Guyon | first9=Olivier | last10=Harris | first10=Walt | last11=Hirata | first11=Chris | last12=Mather | first12=John | last13=Postman | first13=Marc | last14=Redding | first14=Dave | last15=Schiminovich | first15=David | last16=Stahl | first16=H. Philip | last17=Tumlinson | first17=Jason | title=From Cosmic Birth to Living Earths: The Future of UVOIR Space Astronomy | year=2015 | eprint=1507.04779 | page=| class=astro-ph.IM }}</ref> || infrared (at 2000 nm)<ref name="jwst.nasa.gov 2002">{{cite web | title=FAQ Full General Public Webb Telescope/NASA | website=jwst.nasa.gov | date=2002-09-10 | url=https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html | access-date=2022-09-27}}</ref> || [[space telescope]] || [[List of objects at Lagrange points|Sun–Earth L2]] || 2022 - |}
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