/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11301752
>420 meter telescope
If only. See that red zone for the radio telescope in China. Imagine one that's optical between it and Arecibo. Arecibo is 305m dia. Imagine it in space near termination shock for the solar system.

>>11203102
>>11203274
It would not have the capability to resolve another planet well enough to discover life on it. It may be able to resolve extremely large space things created by life, but that'd be about it. Discovering a tool wouldn't be discovering life.

>>10715108
Ideally, it'd really be better to have them somewhere near the edge of the solar system.

>>10326167
Is he making a big space-based telescope?

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>>9773510
Still small bois.

>>9437110
It is more feasible to make an array of smaller stuff and send them up so they can cover that amount of space when hooked together.

>>9208801
Isn't that well well beyond the limit of angular resolution for an optical telescope even with adaptive optics? Pretty much everyone is sticking to 10m aperture or less even as an array for an astronomical interferometer.