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A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
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amichail
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Could we do a less extreme version of this with a planet in the solar system? Or would a probe have to be too far away from it?
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If you use Earth, you can use atmospheric lensing (rather than gravitational) to get a focal point inside the Earth–Moon system:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-could-be-a-...
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