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  • Could you use this to take a picture of an exo planet?

    Also, who will we send in first? How about the orange man so we can get some data on redshift.

    • Well, 13 microarcseconds is the resolution they claim to be shooting for. The nearest star is 4.2 light-years away. 13 microarcseconds at 4.2 light-years is 2500km, the earth is about 12742 km in diameter. So we can theoretically take an approximately 5x5 pixel image of Proxima Centauri b.

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