A new astro-camera has captured the sharpest images ever of the universe

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Great shot! Orion Nebula, looks like? Do you have a link to the article?

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"Basically, you use a test star near the object being imaged to measure the wavefront distortions caused by the atmosphere, and 'undo the twinkling' with a deformable mirror controlled by a computer.

The image of the Orion Nebula linked in the post is not taken using Adaptive Optics, it is just a nice picture. Adaptive Optics images have a much smaller field of view and are usually taken at a single, long (normally infrared) wavelength.

This is not as boring as it sounds because you can see things like protoplanetary disks and maybe even planets. Also, some interesting images of the stars close to the large black hole at the center of our galaxy have been taken showing their orbits as they zip around it."

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"Basically, you use a test star near the object being imaged to measure the wavefront distortions caused by the atmosphere, and 'undo the twinkling' with a deformable mirror controlled by a computer.

The image of the Orion Nebula linked in the post is not taken using Adaptive Optics, it is just a nice picture. Adaptive Optics images have a much smaller field of view and are usually taken at a single, long (normally infrared) wavelength.

This is not as boring as it sounds because you can see things like protoplanetary disks and maybe even planets. Also, some interesting images of the stars close to the large black hole at the center of our galaxy have been taken showing their orbits as they zip around it."

This pretty much sums up me trying to figure out what the hell I just posted...

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That looks just like some of the pictures I take. :grin: