If we can take pictures of other galaxys then how come we can't take pictures of pluto up-close?

Question

If we can take pictures of other galaxys then how come we can't take pictures of pluto up-close?

Answer 1

i think u r discussing about pictures which are realesed by nasa .

but nasa is not the only organisation in this field. isro has more  clear foto graphs of pluto and saturn

Answer 2

Because even though other galaxies are much much farther away, they are also much much larger.  Notice that you cannot see any real detail in those galaxy pictures.  Pluto is just too small and too far away to photograph with any real detail.  Hopefully that will change with the flyby of the New Horizons probe in the summer of 2015.

Answer 3

The answer is simple: galaxies are big, and pluto is small. Galaxies are much bigger than pluto, than elefant is bigger than microbes. We can see elefant, even it is far there, but we cant see microbes even they are on our own skin.

Answer 4

Pluto is close but tiny, while galaxies are distant but absolutely vast. If you do the trigonometry a 100,000 light-year diameter galaxy 13 billion light years away still appears larger than pluto does. We can't see it because it's too faint, not because it's too small. The Andromeda galaxy actually occupies an area of the sky bigger than a full Moon, but we can't see most of it because it's too faint.

It's the same principle as being able to see the house two miles away but not the ant crawling up the wall twenty yards away.

Answer 5

That's a good question. I'm not really sure about that, but it might have to do with how the Hubble Telescope is aimed. I think it's aimed to look out of our solar system, for the very purpose of seeing other galaxies. I don't know if NASA has a way to get more "local" pictures without a big re-aiming effort...

Answer 6

relative size vs. light output. .... simple as that.

planets only reflect light of a star, they dont' produce their own... a galaxy is a collection of stars (among other things, but still they produce their own light and ti's a collection of them)

you still have to take into account, we're using extremely powerful telescopes and can really only recently look at other galaxies..... we still can't even see individual stars... just a single blur of light... even tho there are on average 200 billion stars in that galaxy.... if it were a single star we wouldn't even be able to see it.... but we can still see pluto...

i hope you can catch onto the point i'm trying to make.....

we're only seeing the galaxy becuase we're looking at billions upon billions of diffrent stars, yet we only see a single spot of light....

Answer 7

lol

Answer 8

Galaxies are 10000s of lightyears big, and their stars emit light.

Pluto is just a small piece of rock...