what's the use of our powerful scope that can capture images from far away galaxies? please provide me with a convincing answer/s....jhunnamzon
2007-10-30 15:02:02 · 16 answers · asked by Dionisio M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
D'oh!! Because there's NO flags really on the moon!!
Niel Armstrong & the others never landed on the moon!! It was all a scandel filmed in a basement in Holywood!!
So how can u see anything that's not there or an incident that never happend???
2007-10-30 17:17:38 · answer #1 · answered by riZi 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
what's the use of our powerful scope that can capture images from far away galaxies?
Well, it's really, really good at capturing images from far away galaxies. Not surprising considering that's what it was designed for. It was not designed to take pictures of things on the moon that we already have pictures of anyway. Why would you consider that a better use for it than what it does? Do you really think it ought to be NASA's job to continually prove that they actually did what they did forty years ago? Sort of a waste of their valuable time, don't you think?
2007-10-31 07:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Galaxies are HUGE. Despite their distance they still have an apparent visual size much greater than the flag on the Moon. The Andromeda Galaxy, to the unaided eye, appears as a faint blob. If you take a long exposure photograph of it it is vast, and actually covers an area of sky much bigger than the Moon. You can't see it because it is too faint. Even the most distant galaxy in the entire universe still appears larger than a 5' flag on the Moon seen from 250,000 miles.
That's what telescopes are for. Not just for seeing things that are too small to be seen without them but that are too faint to be seen without long exposure times.
2007-10-31 05:57:17 · answer #3 · answered by Jason T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm assuming this is a way of saying I don't believe the moon landings took place". Correct me if I'm mistaken
"What's the use of our powerful scope"? You mean you think that taking pictures of the flag is a worthwhile use for such an expensive and in-demand piece of equipment?
Astronomers do not care about whether YOU believe the landings took place. You matter nil to them. In any case, as I've answered in other questions, when you look at the disc of the moon, you're looking at something the same size as the US from one side to the other. How big do you think a flag will look by comparison?
2007-10-31 00:12:47 · answer #4 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Far away galaxies are WAAAAAY bigger than the Moon. Just like your own unaided eye can easily see the big Moon 240,000 miles away but cannot read a small book only 1 mile away, those telescopes can easily see a giant galaxy light years away but cannot not make out a small flag on the Moon.
2007-10-30 22:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because we haven't been back to the moon since 1972!
No telescope, not even the mighty HST, has a resolution high enough to discern a flag planted on the surface of the moon from Earth orbit.
That'd be like trying to see the veins in a fly's wing from New York, with the fly in Los Angeles.
2007-10-30 22:18:57 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Even the Hubble telescope isn't large enough or powerful enough to take a picture of a small flag 1 meter tall and 2 meters wide that is over 400,000 km away.
The galaxies that we have pictures of are 100,000 light years across - that is VERY large compared to a small flag.
And the galaxies are bright - they can have up to a trillion stars all shining and contributing their light to the picture.
2007-10-30 22:12:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
To see the junk we left on the moon, you'd need a camera/telescope with about half a million power. Hubble is less than one thousand power. Honestly, I think we should build a big telescope ON the moon. If we did, I wouldn't waste it taking pictures of Earth.
2007-10-31 21:25:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the way, the flag Neil and Buzz planted was blown over by hot exhaust gases when the ascent stage left the moon to return to the command module. I believe that was imaged by spacecraft in orbit around the moon, not sure when though.
2007-10-31 00:37:42 · answer #9 · answered by A Toast For Trayvon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We still don't have a telescope that will capture a 3'by 5' flag at a distance of 250,000 miles.
2007-10-30 22:07:01 · answer #10 · answered by October 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This question is constanly asked. People don't realize just how large and far away the Moon is.
A galaxy is 300,000,000,000,000 times bigger than the entire Moon.
2007-10-30 22:45:38 · answer #11 · answered by JA 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋