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Do you really look in to the past when you look through a telescope at galexes light years away. why?
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∙ 14y ago
Yes it is true. we actually look in the past when looking at distant galaxies. It is because the light emitted by the billions of stars in the galaxies take thousands of millions of years to reach our eyes. So whatever we are looking in the sky has taken place in past. What is happening in the present, we will only know after the light emitted from the object reaches our eyes.
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What is light when it travels through the lens of a telescope?
refracted
When light travels through the lens of a telescope it is?
Refracted
Will it take 8 mins for light to go through a telescope if looking at the sun?
No. The light that enters the front of the telescope is light that left the sun 8 minutes earlier.If the telescope is 100 ft long, then it takes the light about 0.0000000001 second to travel from thefront end of the telescope to the back end, which is about how long it takes for you to go blind if youlook through the telescope directly at the sun.
What is it called when light travels through the lens of a telescope?
Refraction
On what does the light collecting power of a telescope depend?
the area of the opening through which light enters
Is a telescope with incoming light passing through glass refracting?
refracting
Does light pass through the convex lens in a reflector telescope?
yes
What is the difference between a radio telescope and a light telescope?
radio telescope detects radio waves and a light telescope views light waves.
What is The source of light that enables astronomers to see Jupiter through a telescope?
The moon
What kind of telescope focuses light through a transparent lens?
An optical telescope (as distinct from, say, a radio telescope). It's possible that the answer was intended to be "a refracting telescope" but reflecting telescopes use lenses as well.
What is the name of a Visual telescope satellite in space?
An orbiting telescope is a telescope that transferring infared light into visual light while orbiting in space.An orbiting telescope is a telescope that transferring infared light into visual light while orbiting in space.
Why might a star in the night sky look blurry even through a telescope?
Did you ever think you had to clean the lens you look through on the telescope. If your not looking through the telescope may be you have a problem with your eye or you are glazing at the stars which can make the appearance blurry.
