People are focusing a lot on the word "scatter", while I think you might just mean that the photons separate enough, due to a tiny difference in angle, that the huge distance would make it low-resolution. And yes, that does indeed happen, which is why bigger telescopes = more resolution, because it can capture more of the spread-out photons
Zorock t1_iqvyn4r wrote
Reply to If objects in space are far away, does light get scattered enough that it would look “low resolution” by the time it reaches us? by hau2mk7pkmxmh3u
People are focusing a lot on the word "scatter", while I think you might just mean that the photons separate enough, due to a tiny difference in angle, that the huge distance would make it low-resolution. And yes, that does indeed happen, which is why bigger telescopes = more resolution, because it can capture more of the spread-out photons