How do we get such detailed pictures of planets and space?

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I know we get them through massive telescopes…. But how do they capture images so far away? How do they work?

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>I know we get them through massive telescopes…. But how do they capture images so far away? How do they work?

Actually, quite a lot of them are from very light telescopes – ones attached to interplanetary probes sent to explore the planets. Quite often these images are mosaics, stitched together from multiple pictures.