"Tom Del Rosso" wrote in message
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anorton wrote:

The point is to make kilometer scale objects that could never be
launched, such as large interferometer baselines or long baseline
radio telescope arrays.

I wonder what a large optical telescope array could see with long
exposures and massive image processing.

It could resolve more stars into disks instead of points:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...esolved_images
but there is a huge gap between imaging stars and imaging planets.

The search for planets by measuring stellar dimming from occultation
puts limits on the likelihood of many massive unknown dark objects
orbiting the stars we have checked.

jsw