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Studying deep-space objects with high angular resolution requires a telescope outside Earth’s atmosphere, where images aren’t blurred by atmospheric seeing. The Hubble Space Telescope fits this perfectly. Launched in 1990, it operates in space, providing incredibly sharp images across optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths. This stable, long-baseline platform lets scientists capture detailed pictures of distant galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, and other faint objects that ground-based telescopes struggle to resolve, especially over long exposures. The other options serve different purposes or were launched at later dates, so they don’t match both the launch year and the high-resolution deep-space imaging capability described.