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>We're genuinely a telescope generation or two away
now we are fucking not. Unless start using the sun as a telescope lens. even that requires probes sent out to 500 AU (neptune is 30 AU) at very specific points to capture very specific light bended by it. To get a result that it at best a blurry sludge from 100 light years away
Everything else relies on object passing in front of foreign stars. which means every system that is not aligned with earths point of observation goes unobserved