What’s the difference between how a microscope and telescope are made? Why can one look far into space while the other can see things on a microscopic level?

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What’s the difference between how a microscope and telescope are made? Why can one look far into space while the other can see things on a microscopic level?

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Answer 1

Depending on what the lens a microscope uses, you can potentially see things on an atomic level. Electron microscopes use electrons from a filament source. The electrons are attracted through a column ( that contains a vacuum) to an anode while electromagnetic coils focus the beam. Electrons hit the observed objects and causes a radiation to be emitted. Depending on the radiation produced, a computer translate the counts to pixels and produces a gray scale image.

I have no idea how to explain telescopes. But I’m glad to talk a little about my work

Edit: whoops lens are was sort of a vague blanket term. Electromagnetic coils act as a sort of “lens” by condensing the beam. So for you jerk offs to shit on my explanation, you go ahead and explain the electron microscope in laymen’s terms