NASA’s wild plan to turn the sun into a telescope
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 Published On Oct 4, 2022

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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