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Sun size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc

• contravariant 4y ago
  As in one solar mass of telescope or just a telescope as wide as the sun's radius? The latter seems achievable, if tricky.
  • lasc4r 4y ago
    It uses the sun's gravity as a gravitational lens. You fly a normal sized telescope to the focal point. The theoretical resolution is pretty mindblowing, we'd be able to make out oceans and continents on exoplanets.
    • andyjohnson0 4y ago
      The main problem seems to be getting to the focal point, which is 500+ AUs from the Earth.