The nearest neighboring star to the Sun is about 4

Chapter 25, Problem 56

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The nearest neighboring star to the Sun is about 4 lightyears away. If a planet happened to be orbiting this star at an orbital radius equal to that of the EarthSun distance, what minimum diameter would an Earth-based telescopes aperture have to be in order to obtain an image that resolved this starplanet system? Assume the light emitted by the star and planet has a wavelength of 550 nm

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