I don’t know anything specific about what the parent is proposing, but I imagine it is using the mass of the sun as a gravitational lens. Because of the solar r

I don’t know anything specific about what the parent is proposing, but I imagine it is using the mass of the sun as a gravitational lens. Because of the solar radiation there isn’t really much sunlight (read:any) that is directly reflected to an observer peering on the edge of the sun.. light travels in straight lines. Basically, the way scientists used a solar eclipse to confirm the theory of relativity and gravitational lensing of stars ‘behind’ the sun to in front of it. Or like the way certain objects were lensed in the massive JWST shot that came out a couple months ago. But beyond that I know nothing