Interesting video on potential Solar Gravitational Lens Telescope.
In short, you put a telescope out at 542 AUs from the Sun, then the gravity of the sun creates a bloody enormous lens which would enable, for instance, much, much, much higher resolution of things like extra-solar planets.
I may be demonstrating my lack of knowledge here, but if you can do it with the sun, could it be done with a much smaller gravity well, like Jupiters, to produce a similar, but smaller effect?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0E...l=PBSSpaceTime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
In short, you put a telescope out at 542 AUs from the Sun, then the gravity of the sun creates a bloody enormous lens which would enable, for instance, much, much, much higher resolution of things like extra-solar planets.
I may be demonstrating my lack of knowledge here, but if you can do it with the sun, could it be done with a much smaller gravity well, like Jupiters, to produce a similar, but smaller effect?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0E...l=PBSSpaceTime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/ZI91tCR
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