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If we ever meet any aliens with both FTL ships and a SGL telescope, they are going to have some amazing photos to show us.

(now there's a sci-fi plot, feel free to steal that one)

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There is such a sci-fi plot. Unfortunately, I don't recall the story's title or the author. What I do recall was the use of gravitational lensing (a neutron star) to observe an alien world in the years just before the alien's home star went nova.

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