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I'm too ignorant to answer that, but the technical paper here [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11871] goes into a wealth of detail, and includes an image of Earth as it would appear to such a telescope (before and after post-processing) from 30 parsecs away. The optical properties of the solar gravitational lens are pretty astonishing.


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