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Could we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope?

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would be by far the most powerful telescope we'd ever built.

It would harness the gravitational warping of the sun's gravity to allow us to observe the distant universe with a jaw-dropping resolution of 10 ^-10 arcseconds.

A larger telescope would need either gigantic dishes or networks of antennae flying through the solar system.

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute in New York City .

His research focuses on many diverse topics, from the emptiest regions of the universe to the earliest moments of the Big Bang .

He is the host of the popular "Ask a Spaceman !" podcast and author of " Your Place in the Universe" and "How to Die in Space".

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