NASA’s 50 Billion Dollar Bet to See Alien Worlds

In 1936, Einstein did a quiet calculation, then buried it, certain no one could ever use it. He was wrong. There is a way to turn our own Sun into a telescope powerful enough to see oceans, weather, and maybe the lights of a city on a world around another star. The lens has been hanging over your head your whole life. We're going out to the edge of the solar system to find it. A spacecraft that dives into the Sun to escape it. A ring of light 80 billion kilometers away. A nearest world that might be alive, or already dead. If this blows your mind, hit like and subscribe. Lights off. Let's drift. Sources: Solar gravitational lens telescope, NASA NIAC Phase III (Turyshev, JPL), https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-se... Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission, arXiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871 Solar gravitational lens, overview, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_g... What a planet at Proxima Centauri would look like through the SGL, Universe Today, https://www.universetoday.com/article... Frank Drake on aliens potentially seeing ancient Earth, Space.com, https://www.space.com/30922-search-fo... #solargravitationallens #exoplanet #ProximaCentauri #Einstein #NASA #astronomy #space #aliens #telescope #astrophysics