Scopes

In the beginning of December, New Horizons (one of NASA’s space probes exploring the universe) took an image of a group of stars called the “Wishing Well” as well as objects from the Kuiper Belt which is the farthest from Earth that an image has been captured (almost four billion miles away). Assuming the lenses in the camera used by the spacecraft were very high­tech, it should contain both converging and diverging lenses. These lenses work together to create a real, inverted, negative magnification, clear image. In the future, New Horizons is set to explore more of the Kuiper Belt and other objects out in deep space. Many do not know the inner workings of telescopes and how we build telescopes to be able to magnify images of distances more then four billion miles away. Lenses are in our every day lives, they include classes, phones, televisions, and more. Each designed differently for their different purposes, but all taking to account reflection, refraction and the reation of an image.