It&#x27;s likely very much easier to build a telescope array in this solar system than to send a telescope &quot;a couple solar systems away&quot;.<p>KIC 8462852 is 1480 light years away. At 10% light speed it would take over 10,000 years to get within a few solar systems of the star.<p>On the other hand, a space-based interferometer with a baseline of 15 AU would have an angular resolution of:<p><pre><code>  1.22 * 500 nm &#x2F; (15 AU) = 2.7E-19 radians
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giving the ability to see things at KIC 8462852 which are<p><pre><code>  1480 light years * 2.7E-19 = 3 meters across
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That&#x27;s also fantastically advanced, but working backwards, to see objects 100km in size:<p><pre><code>  (1.22  * 500 nm) &#x2F; (100km &#x2F; 1480 light years) = ~100,000 km
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I think we can pull that off within 1,000 years, much less 10,000.