[philipswood]

Exoplanet closeups?

You can use the sun as a gravitational lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens

You need to be about 550 au out.

[burnerRhodov2]

whoa... why aren't we doing that?

[philipswood]

Even cooler is setting up transmitters and receivers at suitable spots on opposite sides of two stars.

[dylan604]

Veeger is currently less that 200 AU, and it's dying. For us to build a craft that could stay alive long enough to make it to 550AU and still be functioning would take an incredible leap in technology. This plan also has a fatal flaw in that you can only ever hope to look at one thing. You can't just slew that craft to be able to line up the next target.

[johnbarron]

You mean V'ger

[johnbarron]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/V%27ger