{"id":85118,"date":"2018-11-26T05:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/solar-gravity-lens-could-bring-exoplanets-into-sharp-focus"},"modified":"2018-11-26T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:22:29","slug":"solar-gravity-lens-could-bring-exoplanets-into-sharp-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/solar-gravity-lens-could-bring-exoplanets-into-sharp-focus","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Solar Gravity Lens\u2019 Could Bring Exoplanets into Sharp Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-gravity-lens-could-bring-exoplanets-into-sharp-focus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An innovative deep-space concept that relies on a solar gravity lens (SGL) to enable enhanced viewing of exoplanets is under study by researchers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and The Aerospace Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The SGL would provide 100-billion-fold optical magnification, allowing it to show details as small as 6 miles (10 kilometers) across \u2014 similar to being able to spot something the size of New York City on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17738-exoplanets.html\">exoplanet<\/a>, study team members said.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a press statement from The Aerospace Corporation, according to Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity, light traveling through space will bend if it passes near sufficiently massive objects. This means that distant light will bend around the periphery of the sun, eventually converging toward a focal region as if it had passed through a lens. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/20155-hunting-intelligent-aliens-extreme-seti.html\">13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42505-solar-gravity-lens-exoplanets-niac.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42505-solar-gravity-lens-exoplanets-niac.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovative deep-space concept that relies on a solar gravity lens (SGL) to enable enhanced viewing of exoplanets is under study by researchers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and The Aerospace Corporation. The SGL would provide 100-billion-fold optical magnification, allowing it to show details as small as 6 miles (10 kilometers) across \u2014 similar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}