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To: NorthMountain

they take better images of objects light years away ...


11 posted on 05/04/2019 3:59:55 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Hubble picture of Jupiter, mean radius = 69911 km

By contrast Uranus has a mean radius of 25362 km.

The features are much larger, that's why they look clearer.

15 posted on 05/04/2019 4:37:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PIF

Hubble picture of Spiral Galaxy M100. Left from the Wide Field Camera 1, right from the Wide Field Camera 3. Note the significant improvement in point-spread function. You call that "clearer"? Those dots are whole stars, and not little ones like our Sun. Planets don't even show up.

16 posted on 05/04/2019 4:42:33 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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