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pavlovtoday at 2:47 PM0 repliesview on HN

Jupiter is 43 lightminutes from the Sun.

If we shoot a thousand probes at 0.1c directly at the Alpha Centauri star, they should have several hours within a Jupiter-distance range of the star to capture data. Seems like enough sensors and time to synthesize an interesting image of the system when all that data gets back to Earth.