NASA wants to turn the Sun into a love glass to search for aliens

Scientists at NASA's Jet Dynamics Laboratory have revealed a rather crazy plan when they plan to turn the Sun into a giant telescope to search for extraterrestrial life.

They hope, by this method, "close-up" of high-resolution planets can be seen, allowing the " surface characteristics and vital signs" to be viewed on these messages.

According to the plan, scientists will place a telescope at a specific location, based on the Sun's gravitational field focusing light from weak sources, far into the region called the Lenses. Sun school. This makes it possible to directly monitor images of Earth-like planets.

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Telescopes are currently limited by the size and distance of observation.

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, gravity creates refractive properties in space-time. This means that objects of great weight like the Sun can be considered a lens if bending light.

"The passing light rays will deflect by gravity around the lens, they will converge at the focal point. And in the solar system, only the Sun is the only planet with enough mass to focus on. in the distance we can put the glasses " - they explained.

If successful, we can obtain images and spectra with resolutions up to 1,000 * 1,000 pixels.

Currently, most of our telescopes, limited by the observed size and distance, only achieve a few pixel resolution when viewed at points far from Earth.

However, this plan may have some problems. The telescope in the plan can only work if it is within the solar focal point, which is 14 times farther away from Pluto's orbit. While, in fact, Voyager 1 spacecraft - our farthest cruise ship - has only reached one fifth of this journey in the last 50 years.