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Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020) (arxiv.org)
1 point by guidoism on May 11, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Plan to photograph an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km per pixel resolution (2020)

This is fascinating. There is a plan to directly photograph exoplanets by sending a series of telescopes 500+ AU in the opposite direction of what we want to photograph and using the sun as a gravitational lens. We send out waves of these small telescopes to get pictures at various focal planes.

This video has a good description of the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI




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