How can someone take a picture of a solar system 50 million light years away, but not a coin sized rock on the surface of the moon.

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I recently saw a photo somebody posted of a galaxy 50 million light years away. I have always wondered, why doesn’t he point it at the moon or even a planet 10 light years away and see the surface up close? We might see water or certain organisms. I have yet to see a picture like that in my lifetime. Thanks in advance for the answer.

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We can’t see solar systems that far away. For the most part, we can’t even see individual stars. We can see galaxies because they are very large, very bright, and stand still nicely for ultra-long exposures.

The same degree of magnification that displays distant galaxies shows things on the scale of mountains on other planets and the scale of parking lots on the moon.

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