It will inspire Croberts to build an actual satellite and sell jpegs of the planets it finds
tbf I would love to see another take on the space telescope.
:grin: They (the government in this case) actually sold deeds to real star system in Liu Cixin's excellent Rememberance of Earth's past trilogy to fund the fledgling space industry.
This is gonna be a thing in real life as well. Ya bet it will be at some point. After all who's gonna say no to paying off all national debt and let some billionaire's have some claim to some distant star no one's ever gonna reach in the next couple hundred years, if at all anyways. But hey, you can say you own a Star. And just imagine THAT as a gift.... what girl would say no?