NASA’s wild plan to turn the sun into a telescope

From Verge Science.

We can find exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope, but it can’t take a high resolution image of one. Luckily, NASA is studying a mission that plans to use gravitational lensing to get us that elusive picture. All we need to do is point a telescope directly at the Sun.

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0:00 – Intro
0:50 – The NASA mission
1:34 – The necessary tech
2:18 – Solar Gravitational lens 101
3:55 – Einstein ring
5:13 – How to create a detailed image of exoplanet
5:57 – Telescope location
7:12 – Telescope size
7:39 – Answering big questions

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