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Can telescopes capture images of planets in galaxies millions of light years away?

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  • 12 months ago
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    Not yet... The furthest exoplanet *detected* - (not necessarily imaged) is about 2,500 light years away... detecting planets in other galaxies is beyond our capability at the moment. 

  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    Probably not, any planets that far away would be so dim they wouldn't be visible in any current telescopes.

    Even in our own galaxy, exoplanets still only appear as tiny dots of light.

  • 12 months ago

    No.

    Telescopes can't even see individual stars in galaxies except the few closest galaxies. The vast majority of galaxies only look like small fuzzy blotches of light on long exposure images.

  • Clive
    Lv 7
    12 months ago

    Don't be silly. That's far too distant.

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  • 12 months ago

    No. Telescopes can't even see planets of nearby stars. We can only see planets in our solar system. 

  • Acetek
    Lv 4
    12 months ago

    No and it is very difficult to spot a planet around a star that is nere  us

  • 12 months ago

    Something like HST can. My big scope can see some of the most distant galaxies, just a faint fuzzy speck mind you. As for exo-planets, no, but logging a host star intensity, I can spot the dip with an eclipse.

    Scope is a 300MM X f2000 RC concept.

  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    No. we detect those planets by noticing differences in the amount of light coming from their stars

  • 12 months ago

    No because they are too far away

    Not even Super Jupiters

     Plus their Stars are too Bright

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