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Kilometers per pixel? That doesn’t sound right. At that resolution Earth would be 12000 pixels wide...
by layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
Kilometers per pixel? That doesn’t sound right. At that resolution Earth would be 12000 pixels wide...
- danbruc 6y agoBut it is actually true, there are proposals to use the sun as a gravitational lens to take picture of planets hundreds of light-years away with resolutions of kilometers to tens of kilometers. Actually building such a telescope would however probably be very challenging with our current technology as it requires sending satellites far away from the sun, several times the current distance of Voyager 1. Here is the first article [1] my search found. I did not actually read this specific, so I have no idea whether it is any good but it should provide enough information to search for additional information. [1] https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/ultimate-space-telescope-would-use-sun-lens-180962499/ https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/ultimate-space-tele...
- lmilcin 6y agoYes. So it does not require any speculative technology that we may or may not ever possess, just put together what we currently have plus some amount of research that would normally be expected of a project this size plus huge budget plus huge amount of patience. This is just a case go get a budget and build it.