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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 08:17:35 JST Flipboard Science Desk

We have some incredibly powerful telescopes that have given us spectacular views and allowed us to look back to the early days of the universe. But what if we could access an even better telescope that already exists? Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into the cosmos. Space.com has more: https://flip.it/yH22Ur
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1. Could we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope?
  
  Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space.

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