[rjsimmon]

We have calculated that a modest telescope located approximately 50 billion miles from the Sun

Since the Earth is 1 AU (93 million miles) from the Sun, how they gonna get a telescope out that far? And how they gonna get data from it?

[Da Bilge Troll]

"how they gonna get a telescope out that far?"

That would be child's play with the perfection of the new Covfefe drive.

[ctdonath2]

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is only 12 billion miles now.

[LibWhacker]

Next generation rockets boosted by gravitational assists from two or three planets. Maybe even complementary ion propulsion. It's going to have to be faster than today's spacecraft, that's for sure, if we want to do it in a reasonable amount of time. But it's definitely doable.

My guess is that onboard power for heating, communications, computation, etc., will probably be supplied by rtgs in early missions, a technology we're already quite good at.