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Because the main function of a telescope is to make things brighter. It does that

by collecting the light from an object over a much greater area than the lens of

your eye does.

-- The lens of your eye is maybe 1/2 inch in diameter.

-- The lens of the largest refracting telescope is 40 inches in diameter, so it can collect

6,400 times as much light from a star as your eye can.

-- The mirror of the largest reflecting telescope is 400 inches in diameter, so it can collect

640,000 times as much light from a star as your eye can.

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