How do we have the equipment to picture and see cosmos and stars millions of light years away, but can’t just zoom-in to examine and view the surfaces of our interplanetary planets in the solar system?

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How do we have the equipment to picture and see cosmos and stars millions of light years away, but can’t just zoom-in to examine and view the surfaces of our interplanetary planets in the solar system?

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TL;DR The far away things are super big and super bright (a billion billion atomic bombs going off at the same time) so easy to see from a distance and the detail is lost.

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