Solar gravitational lensing is a plan to send out a little telescope to a point in the artisoles. If you could put a telescope there, then the sun would become an extra lens on that telescope and it would produce powerful magnification. But wait, but Matt, isn't the sun in the way? How are you gonna see a lensed planet when the sun is brighter than everything? When will that happen?
Can we use gravitational lensing to view distant planets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore black holes, quasars, entropy, and more with astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.
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