You had me at space telescope.
"Sending a telescope just one-third the size of the Hubble Space Telescope to the sun’s focal region [60 billion miles away] could produce a megapixel-quality image" of an earth-sized exoplanet 100 light-years away https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-photograph-the-surface-of-an-exoplanet/ …pic.twitter.com/vE1nOmmmcq
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I think this is absolutely cool. A related web page: https://aerospace.org/article/solar-gravity-lens-looks-exoplanets …
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Gravity lens for the win
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The Centauri Dreams blog has been following the technological development for quite awhile. Something there from 2006-- https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2006/08/18/the-focal-mission-to-the-suns-gravity-lens/ … ..
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Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
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Do it!
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Let’s start with an actual (non-composite) photo of Earth from space?
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Wow. Impressive. Hopeful.
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@NASA still has one Hubble-class telescope body and optics, from the NRO donation (one will be used for WFIRST). We'll soon have the ability to launch one to such an orbit, too, via either SLS, SpaceX Starship, or Blue Origin's rocket. -
None of them can send it this far within 50 years. You need something like Project Orion.
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