…and bright near-infrared, and that’s only the crude multispectral imaging. If we go to high-res hyperspectral, everything blooms with data-rich beauty.
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This post makes me think of the Young Ones!
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Sounds like the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem ( Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem - Wikipedia ) Roughly, you get chaotic motion near low-denominator multiples of the system’s resonances. I wouldn’t be surprised if this aids planet formation.
It has also been used as a possible explanation for gaps in the rings of Saturn http://www.math.caltech.edu/SimonPapers/146.pdf
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With your feet in the void
And your head in a rock
Get Gs when you spin it, yeah
If your rock collapse
There was just ice in it
And then you’ll ask yourself
Where is my mine?
Where is my mine?
Where is my mine?
Way out past the Oort cloud
See it drifting
How large of a telescope would be necessary? I seem to recall that this was the subject of an old analog essay in which the author proposed building an hectometer scale telescope (in space) to detect biospheres around nearby stars. But this was decades ago.
I have no idea. 
A lot of the instrumentation and methods for search of exoplanets are amazing to me. The sensitivity and resolution are just fantastic.
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