The basic set of ideas here are as follows: 1) The Sun is a very strong gravity well. 2) Light rays (in this case, from distant regions of space) are bent aro

The basic set of ideas here are as follows: 1) The Sun is a very strong gravity well. 2) Light rays (in this case, from distant regions of space) are bent around strong gravitational wells, that is, gravity curves space-time around it, as Einstein pointed out. 3) Mankind, at this point in our history, is capable of launching satellites/space-probes -- that can carry long-range light detection equipment, and these satellites/space-probes can be positioned in certain positions and at certain distances from the sun such that faint light from distant galaxies can be detected at some distance from the edge of the sun (the sun's light, if it should interfere, is blocked or filtered out, and/or subtracted from the data via advanced machine learning algorithms...) 4) The data gathered should be able to be re-assembled into images showing what exists at great distances in space. 5) Net effect, if it works, is that a "virtual telescope" is created, whose mirror/lens -- is many millions, if not billions of times larger than the largest mirror/lens on the largest space telescope in orbit today... In other words, that's one heck of a telescope (!) for studying distant galaxies -- if it could be made to work... Crossing my fingers for the future of this technology! <g>