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[NIAC 2023] Observe the Universe from Deep Space

Universe Today Podcast

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The Challenges of Solar Gravitational Lenses

Dr. Turch is looking for a one meter telescope deployed out to the solar gravitational lens between 500 and 1000 AU. If you could do that, then he figures you can get a one megapixel image of an extra solar planet. To get much over 100 kilometers per second is still pretty hard. But I think traveling at 21 AU per year would take you about 25 years to get out there.

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