Of all things I cant wrap my head around how do we see distant

>>9148268
Yes

>>9148271
get cancer

>>9148271
what's with the waves of yesposters recently? not only on /sci/ but other boards as well.
is this what millenials find entertaining?
(in b4 "yes", go ahead josh)

>>9148268
The latter. The photons are already en route. Your human perception just "ignores" most of them. Telescopes "pay attention" to more of them so get a clearer picture. But only so clear of a picture is possible, because as you would logically expect, the further away something is, the more lines of radiation coming out from that object have passed you. In other words, you can only perceive a maximum number of photons that reach you from that object, your human senses just ignore most of them.

>>9148268
Telescopes are quite complicated with lots of detection. They don't really use visible light but various other sections of the spectrum.

>>9148544
it's a popular joke among /reddit/ards
most people just aren't capable of not regurgitating jokes ad nauseum

>>9148268
https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0503302.pdf

>>9149797
Most asenine paper I've read the abstract of in several da

>>9149971
And why is it asenine?

>>9148268
The main thing that telescopes do is gather more light. Your pupils can only open to about 6-7mm but a telescope might have a primary mirror of a few hundred mm across. Because it can gather more light than your naked eye, the telescope helps you to see dim objects.