I can't continue down this rabbit hole so I'm asking for a handout. I remember reading about the limitations of light and contrast to resolve smaller details on the moon or other solar systems like this. I've since lost the details and links to time.
Is there any upper limit, physically, to this? Would it be possible on paper to design a system that could take pictures of the moon where you could see individual strands of hair on a human?
I'm curious if we might at some point construct enormous arrays of telescopes spanning large (human perspective) sections of space that could give us a window into our galaxy.
Is there any upper limit, physically, to this? Would it be possible on paper to design a system that could take pictures of the moon where you could see individual strands of hair on a human?
I'm curious if we might at some point construct enormous arrays of telescopes spanning large (human perspective) sections of space that could give us a window into our galaxy.