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Ground-based Telescope as Sharp as Hubble

Posted by michael on from the corrective-lenses-required dept.

Midnight Thunder writes: "The BBC has an article describing how the Paranal Observatory has been able to take images that are just as sharp as the Hubble Space Telescope. For a ground based telescope the images are of amazing quality."

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  1. This is not new by lanclos · · Score: 3, Informative

    Keck's been capable of "beating" Hubble for a good long while now. Adaptive Optics is wild and crazy stuff.

    Please don't believe that we'll be able to do away with space-based observing because of this innovation. Our atmosphere absorbs an awful lot of interesting wavelengths.