[lmilcin]

Believe or not, that project is already underway and will use our Sun as a gravitational lens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens

I predict in couple decades we will learn to build swarms of drone craft that we will send to the right location and they will be able to image nearby planets (one per swarm...) with at least ~10-40km per pixel if not better.

[spaetzleesser]

“Underway “ is a little strong. Putting something at 500 AU is still not really feasible within a reasonable timeframe.

But I think there are exciting things to come up in the next decades for sure.