Turning the Sun Into a Telescope: The Audacious Mission to Photograph Alien Worlds
A recent paper proposes sending a probe 650 AU from Earth to use the Sun's own gravity as a cosmic magnifying glass — capable of imaging exoplanet surfaces, atmospheres, and maybe even cities. The catch? We need to get there in under 30 years, and that requires propulsion technology we haven't built yet.
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