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

Question

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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Answer 1

Some of what you see is long exposure photography, where the camera is attached to a telescope that moves with the rotation of the Earth. Some photography you see of distant galaxies, etc are not photographs, or are only infrared and the astronomers add false color later.