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Why can the Hubble Space Telescope view distant galaxies in incredible clarity, yet all images of Pluto are so blurry?

Can't we just point the telescope at the planet and actually get some high resolution, detailed images of its surface?

Are there certain technical/practical limitations that most people are unaware of?

**Edit**: Thanks guys, this thread has been some interesting reading.
gpt
Hubble can see things incredibly far away but only if they are incredible large. The Hubble's angular resolution is 0.1 arcseconds. Pluto's diameter is about 1200km and is about 4.2 billion km from Earth at its closest, giving it an angular diameter of about .06 arcseconds.  For comparison the largest of the Pillars of Creation is about 7 light years long and about 7000 light years from Earth giving it an angular diameter of over 200 arc seconds. If you could see them and Pluto the Pillars would take up a much larger portion of the sky than Pluto, since they're bigger than they are far away (compared to Pluto).