<story><title>Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances</title><url>https://astrobiology.com/2024/05/swarming-proxima-centauri-coherent-picospacecraft-swarms-over-interstellar-distances.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>On a similar vein, I have a deep yearning for a solar gravity lens to be used to image exo planets within my lifetime. I&amp;#x27;ve got a long time, but it&amp;#x27;s frustrating to see so little movement on big astronomy projects like these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>was_a_dev</author><text>What about the Terrascope [1] concept instead? Using the Earth&amp;#x27;s atmoshpere as a refractive lens. This requires a telescope of L2 rather than some 540AU away for a solar gravity lens.&lt;p&gt;Not as powerful as the latter, but much more do-able just on the distance scale alone. It would essentially be an &amp;quot;Eath-observing&amp;quot; James Webb&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ui.adsabs.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;2019ESS.....433310K&amp;#x2F;abstract&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ui.adsabs.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;2019ESS.....433310K&amp;#x2F;abstra...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances</title><url>https://astrobiology.com/2024/05/swarming-proxima-centauri-coherent-picospacecraft-swarms-over-interstellar-distances.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>On a similar vein, I have a deep yearning for a solar gravity lens to be used to image exo planets within my lifetime. I&amp;#x27;ve got a long time, but it&amp;#x27;s frustrating to see so little movement on big astronomy projects like these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilroy123</author><text>Same here! One of my dream projects to see happen before I die.&lt;p&gt;For those that don&amp;#x27;t know what this is or could mean:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.space.com&amp;#x2F;sun-gravity-could-help-observe-exoplanets-in-detail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.space.com&amp;#x2F;sun-gravity-could-help-observe-exoplan...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>