My partner, a 20-year physicist from NASA is enlightening me on the Solar gravitational lens and exoplanets.
SPACE
Simulations suggest Kepler 62-f is "a strong candidate for a habitable planet"
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-seventy-billion-mile-telescope
SPACE
Simulations suggest Kepler 62-f is "a strong candidate for a habitable planet"
IS KEPLER 62-f A HABITABLE PLANET?
The Seventy-Billion-Mile Telescope
FOCAL does have many limitations—beyond the fact that it requires technology that no one has built. Gravitational lenses are uniquely distorting. For example, in this photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, a cluster of galaxies acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying a single galaxy far, far beyond it, which would ordinarily be invisible to us. Due to the physics of gravitational lenses, the galaxy appears multiple times, in a ring. Resolving such distortion is complicated enough with optical images in which we already have a rough idea of what the observed object looks like. A radio message from an alien civilization would be even more challenging to reconstruct.
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