Why can Hubble get detailed views of distant galaxies but not of Pluto?
So tempted to post the Father Ted clip ...
Anyway, anyone with experience of photography will understand. Sometimes you need a wide angle lense. Other times you need a zoom lense.
Quote:Galaxies are far away, it's true, but many of them are bigger than they are far, at least by comparison to the worlds within our solar system! Think about that for a moment -- how something that is millions of light-years away can still appear a thousand times bigger than something that's inside our own solar system.
So tempted to post the Father Ted clip ...
Anyway, anyone with experience of photography will understand. Sometimes you need a wide angle lense. Other times you need a zoom lense.