daddywookie t1_ixo19ls wrote on November 24, 2022 at 10:49 PM

Reply to comment by phenomduck in With JWST Fully Operational Again, we get Images Like This: Saturn's Moon Titan by The_Weekend_Baker

I guess like trying to look into fast cars with a pair of binoculars. You’d could see it really well if it would only stay still.

phenomduck t1_ixo99eg wrote on November 24, 2022 at 11:57 PM

It's also important to remember that the solar system is very large compared to the planets and moons. Titan is only 5150km across, but 1.2 billion km away. To scale, it's not actually much larger than the farthest known galaxies. Luminosity is whole other thing, which I have no knowledge about.