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#HappyNewYear 🎉 Boost your #NewYear resolution with adaptive optics. By deforming a thin flexible mirror a thousand times per second you can correct atmospheric turbulence and get sharp astronomical images!

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Two telescopic images of the planet Neptune side by side. The left one, labeled "adaptive optics", is very crisp and shows detailed white clouds against the planet's deep blue disc. The right one, labeled "no adaptive optics", shows a blurred disc where no details can be discerned.

Adaptive Optics

Astronomers have turned to a method called adaptive optics. Sophisticated, deformable mirrors controlled by computers can correct in real-time for the distortion caused by the turbulence of the Earth's atmosphere, making the images obtained almost as…
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