Lyman Spitzer, the American astrophysicist for whom the telescope is named, pointed out the advantages of space telescopes back in 1946. Since then, instruments such as the legendary Hubble Space ...
Bottom right is a combination of Hubble, Subaru, and Spitzer images: the Hubble infrared bands are green, Lyman alpha emission is blue, and infrared 3.6 micron is red.