Solar System Pictures Of Planets

Kim Said:

How come Hubble can take so many pictures of everything else but other planets from other systems?

We Answered:

The logical reason is that at the distances involved the planets are too far away and swamped by the glare of the star. Even if the distance between them and the star is large enough to be resolved, most of the planets themselves are not. Planets around other stars have been imaged, but they appear as nothing more than points.

You will never see a clear picture of a planet from another solar system because they are just too far away and too small to observe directly.

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