Why can the Hubble Space Telescope take such awesome pictures?


Posted August 31st, 2009 by admin 9 Comments »
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zed asked:


The pictures that I have seen look like really colorful dust. But they have pictures of galaxies
First of all, are they real?
Secondly, how do they know where to point the telescope? (Maybe a dumb question)
And Third, how can they take the pictures if the places are so far away???