how come photos of the moon/outerspace are so blurry yet we are able to put equipment worth thousands of dollars in space?
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Because of distance.
The Sun is an estimated 1,000,000 Miles away.
Astrophysics measurements are sort of complicated because you have space/time/distance and radial locale to observe and account for.
The Black Hole photo isn't even from Andromeda, which is the nearest Galaxy over, it's from Messier 87, which is further away.
The reason why it has to be further away is because of similar issues to trying to photograph something like Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way, or trying to determine what's at the core of the Earth: These are things we have trouble with because we're too close to make proper determinations.
If we tried to photograph Sag A*, it'd just be a black photo, because we're too close. Similarly, we can't measure the Earth's core correctly, because we're ON Earth.
It's also plausible that we just simply don't have the technological advancement yet to properly prove what is definitively at the core of rocky planets. That could be another one of those situations where the math is there, the logic is there, but the technological advancement and equipment hasn't caught up to it quite yet.
The Sun is an estimated 1,000,000 Miles away.
Astrophysics measurements are sort of complicated because you have space/time/distance and radial locale to observe and account for.
The Black Hole photo isn't even from Andromeda, which is the nearest Galaxy over, it's from Messier 87, which is further away.
The reason why it has to be further away is because of similar issues to trying to photograph something like Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way, or trying to determine what's at the core of the Earth: These are things we have trouble with because we're too close to make proper determinations.
If we tried to photograph Sag A*, it'd just be a black photo, because we're too close. Similarly, we can't measure the Earth's core correctly, because we're ON Earth.
It's also plausible that we just simply don't have the technological advancement yet to properly prove what is definitively at the core of rocky planets. That could be another one of those situations where the math is there, the logic is there, but the technological advancement and equipment hasn't caught up to it quite yet.
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Despite it's distance, 8 light minutes away, we have extremely high resolution images of the sun. For example, this is the surface of the sun, explained more here.
We also have pretty decent pictures of the Andromeda Galaxy, though it's 2.5 million light years away.
Black holes are another story altogether, because they're technically invisible, so we can really only detect them indirectly.
We also have pretty decent pictures of the Andromeda Galaxy, though it's 2.5 million light years away.
Black holes are another story altogether, because they're technically invisible, so we can really only detect them indirectly.
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same reasons photos of bigfoot, loch ness monster, ghosts and other spooks are blurryim talking about the ones that say theres alienson the moon lol
i really don't know to be honest
Well, I think it also has to do with dark matter. It's the most abundant thing in the universe. But, we don't know what it is. Well, maybe it's more obvious then we think:
