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Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope

Posted by kdawson on from the palomar-ascendent dept.

igny writes "Astronomers from the University of Cambridge and Caltech have developed a new camera that gives much more detailed pictures of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and does it from the ground. A new technique called 'Lucky imaging' has been used to diminish atmospheric noise in the visible range, creating the most detailed pictures of the sky in history."

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  1. Re:If they can do this from earth... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well sure. All you have to do is bounce your laser off of those gas clouds to find out how to compensate for them. That should only take a couple hundred or a couple of thousand years with a laser that would consume more power than all of the Earth uses. Oh, and you better hope that that gas cloud doesn't change in the transit time.