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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They're right on this one. This picture here is pretty illuminating about the sizes of the views that Hubble captures:

Image source with additional reading. Zooming into an object a couple of meters in size on the surface of the Moon is in a completely different ballpark.