The most depressing statistic here (for me anyway) is that to directly image the nearest exoplanet at 1km per pixel we're going to need a telescope with ~.000000005 arcseconds of resolution.
Someone check my math but that would be like imaging the ISS at the nanometer scale from the surface of the earth.
Someone check my math but that would be like imaging the ISS at the nanometer scale from the surface of the earth.