Forget Space Travel: Build This Telescope
Category: SCIENCE
If the type of telescope described here can be built, then the tyranny of distance is vanquished. You can forget deep space probes and their long travel times. We could explore alien worlds in the comfort of our own homes, as our laptops scroll and zoom through data sets collected by a mammoth, space-based telescope array.
By Seth Shostak, ContributorSenior Astronomer, SETI Institute, 2014-08-19