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Ask HN: Would a planet in deep space be visible to a space ship flying past it?
- bell-cot 3y agoAre we talking a cheap & expendable little space probe, or something expensive and irreplaceable-ish? The latter is likely to have a load of ultra-high-quality telescopes and sensor drones monitoring its neighborhood and trajectory, to minimize the risk of disastrous collisions.
- andrewstuart 3y agoI would have thought it would be too dark to see anything.