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If Hubble takes pictures of objects thousands of light years away, Why cant hubble take a snap shot of the outmost planets? is it because there moving?

what you mean it can't? it can, and does. but because those distant things like galaxies are so huge, they appear wider than planets on the sky.

we had covered that before, and in this thread there is a link to Hubbles' picture of Pluto.

It had been bothering me about that. So its the fact that its so small is why Hubble cant photograph it that well. Why dont someone build something that can take pictures of it? That would probably be a lot of use to be able to snap clear pics of NEO's..

paynesmanor said;

"Why dont someone build something that can take pictures of it?"

In a way it is already build and "en route " toward pluton. To take a picture from here that will be as good as the one from the probe, it would take a giant telescope that might cost a lot more then the probe itself. Even with a giant keck telescope it wont be as good as a probe. The earth atmosphere will deform the image and i'm not sure the atmosphere deformation can be correct perfectly with the size this telescope would have. Also, to put such a giant telescope in space will cost more then sending a little probe. If anyone else have more technical info on this i will be please to learn it. I dont have the addy for the probe. If someone else have it, please add it.

Just found the link. Go to "New horizon" wich is the name of the probe "en route" toward pluto. You also have many more.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/timeline/c ... sions.html