The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!

I’m going to tell you about the craziest proposal for an astrophysics mission that has a good chance of actually happening. A train of spacecraft sailing the sun’s light to a magical point out there in space where the Sun’s own gravity turns it into a gigantic lens. What could such a...

21 min - Space & the Universe - PBS Space Time

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