The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology talks about an interesting project that Zyvex has planned. They will create nanostructures with elements of molecular precision. This will help enable more powerful capabilities for controlling structures. The plans are to use silicon and silicon carbide and possibly other materials and created connected layers.
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Here is the link to the OWL telescope site. It has been funded for studies but construction funding has not been made yet. At 1.2 billion Euro it seems worthwhile. Cheaper than Hubble anyway.
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There’s also the OWL super-scope – about 100 metres aperture I think. That’ll be able to spot Earth-like planets out to about 10 parsecs or so, with adaptive optics and maybe a super-lens to boost it even further.
Of course all the actual imaging of exoplanets will be via orbital imaging interferometers – big ones.