Solar gravitational lens telescope is feasible way to get high resolution pictures of habitable exoplanet, study shows

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources away from the one you care about. In the scientific community, one of the most devastating ways you can do that is by making the other methods appear to be too expensive to be feasible, or, better yet, prove they wouldn't work at all due to some fundamental limitation. That is what a recent paper by Dr. Slava Turyshev, the world's most prominent proponent of a solar gravitational lens (SGL) telescope mission, does.