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[Q&A] Turning Starship into 9m Telescope, Lunar Gravitational Lens, Robotic Exploration | Q&A 190

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How Many Gravitational Lenses Are Available?

Gravitational lenses are used for discovering exo planets. A gravitational lens is where you've got the some foreground object, like a galaxy cluster or a star, that acts as a natural lens with its gravity to magnify something that is perfectly behind it. Rob m fraser: Do we know how many there are? And we never could, because they're popping up all the time.

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