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To: Jonty30

“... captures the various wavelengths of light in greater concentration and creates a much more detailed picture of it”

I still don’t get it.

If it creates a ‘more detailed picture’ then it must be like a screen that you can look at, perhaps through magnification because perhaps it’s very small.

Could it be just a light amplifier, amplifying the light that impinges on it.


17 posted on 06/14/2024 6:35:09 AM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: cymbeline

Telescopes collect data. They don’t take a picture anymore, because we reached the limit as to what we can do when it comes to seeing images for what they are, like you would with a cellphone.

The data it collects is then recompositioned in a computer to create the image that NASA releases for public composition. So, all the images that you see that NASA has released are recompositioned images.

What this technology allows is greater data collection on the bandwidths of ultraviolet to infrared and the visible light spectrum and everything in between. When the data collected are recompositioned in a computer, you will see pictures in much greater detail than is currently allowed with the limits of our technology.

It will allow us to see farther out and in greater detail than what we can currently.


19 posted on 06/14/2024 4:45:19 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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