The Hubble Space Telescope has a mirror diameter of (2.4 mathrm{~m}). Suppose the telescope was used to
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The Hubble Space Telescope has a mirror diameter of \(2.4 \mathrm{~m}\). Suppose the telescope was used to photograph the surface of the moon from a distance of \(3.8 \times 10^{8} \mathrm{~m}\). What is the distance between two objects that the telescope can barely resolve? Assume the wavelength of light is \(600 \mathrm{~nm}\).
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