Not a small scope...
This is just too big to pass up:A French astronomer has plans for a giant "hypertelescope" that could take pictures of forests and oceans on planets orbiting other suns.The massive Exo-Earth Imager, measuring over 60 miles across, would be large enough to spot a green patch the size of the Amazon on an alien world 10 light years away.
Dr Antoine Labeyrie, from the Observatory of Haute-Provence in southern France, is already testing the idea with a much smaller experimental telescope
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