• Question: hi !how can the hubba telescope take the pictures that it can take how does it work ? and how can the images even be possible is it due to a chemical reaction or something ? thanks

    Asked by socka5 to David, Luna, Mark, Probash on 25 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 25 Mar 2011:


      No – Hubble telescope is just a very high quality telescope, which captures images across a wide part of the light spectrum. The images look very high quality partly because there is no atmospheric interference – no molecules to absorb or scatter light at different wavelengths

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