Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
Nice gravitational lens observation! We're hoping to use the same technique with the Sun to observe exoplanets by launching a fleet of small satellites to 547 AU (80 billion km / ~3 light days). The craft would sample the distorted Einstein ring around our Sun from that vantage point, then combine and reconstruct an image of the disk of an Earth-like exoplanet up to 100 light-years beyond, at a resolution of 25 kilometers / pixel.<p><a href="https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-07-08-Issue-72/#more-on-that-solar-gravity-lens-focus-mission" rel="nofollow">https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-07-08-Issue-72/#more-o...</a>