| ▲ | philipswood 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
Exoplanet closeups? You can use the sun as a gravitational lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens You need to be about 550 au out. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | burnerRhodov2 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
whoa... why aren't we doing that? | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | dylan604 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Veeger is currently less that 200 AU, and it's dying. For us to build a craft that could stay alive long enough to make it to 550AU and still be functioning would take an incredible leap in technology. This plan also has a fatal flaw in that you can only ever hope to look at one thing. You can't just slew that craft to be able to line up the next target. | |||||||||||||||||
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