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I guess we would need two telescopes very far apart in order to get stereo images?

Wouldn't any two points converge at the horizon, considering the distances involved, otherwise?




Or use the same telescope by taking images 6 months apart so the earth is in opposite position in its orbit


Andromeda is a whole other beast, but I understand we've done something similar for bodies in our Milky Way using two ends of Earth's trip around the sun.


Yeah, Andromeda is way too far away. The Gaia mission was custom-built to do exactly this kind of "stereo" imaging of stars in our own galaxy, but it's still not sensitive enough to cover the entire Milky Way.




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