NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts (NAIC) came up with the (old-fashioned) idea of using a giant camera obscura in space to take pictures of exosolar planets (planets from outside of our solar system). It's a wonderful melding of the 19th and 21st centuries. Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/new_worlds_imager.html
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