Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News
A telescope on Earth has snapped pictures of Neptune at least as clear as those from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The trick? Taking the twinkle out of stars.Released by the European Southern Observatory on July 18, the images come from a new observing system on the Very Large Telescope in Chile. The instrument uses four lasers to cancel out blurring caused by Earth’s atmosphere — the same effect that makes it look like stars are twinkling —…
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