Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Please don't twinkle light star

You really ruin the quality of my astronomy image. Ordinarily this would mean getting rid of the atmosphere (in general a bad thing) or building a telescope above it (e.g. Hubble), but people are developing techniques to take the twinkle out using something called "adaptive optics". Go here to read about a recent breakthrough in this technique.

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