(II) The nearest neighboring star to the Sun is about4

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(II) The nearest neighboring star to the Sun is about4 light-years away. If a planet happened to be orbiting thisstar at an orbital radius equal to that of the Earth-Sundistance, what minimum diameter would an Earth-basedtelescopes aperture have to be in order to obtain an imagethat resolved this star-planet system? Assume the lightemitted by the star and planet has a wavelength of 550 nm.

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