How Can You Build A Telescope As Large As The Earth

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No matter how accurate your optics are there's a physical limit to how accurate an image can be made. To get finer details you need a larger aperture, at the ultimate limit there are ways to combine telescopes around the world to get resolution like it was a single large telescope the size of a planet.



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telescope
event horizon
camera
physics
rayleigh
dawes limit