In a slightly different vein, ESA's Gaia mission measured the distances to billions of stars by looking at how their position shifts as we orbit from one side o

In a slightly different vein, ESA's Gaia mission measured the distances to billions of stars by looking at how their position shifts as we orbit from one side of the sun to the other. Not taking highly detailed images like JWST, but in some ways you can think of it as a telescope the size of Earth's orbit. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Parallax https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/P... https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/gaia-makes-most-accurate-3d-map-of-the-milky-way-yet/ https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/gaia-makes-most-a...