The Sharpest Photos Of Space Ever
Magellan Telescope with MagAO's Adaptive Secondary Mirror Yuri Beletsky, Las Campanas Observatory With a new camera system, astronomers are seeing the universe in super high-resolution. A team of astronomers from the University of Arizona, Italy's Arceti Obervatory, and the Carnegie Observatory has developed a new camera system that can record images in visible light twice as sharply as the Hubble Space Telescope. This is really impressive, considering Hubble is up in space and doesn't have to take pictures through Earth's turbulent atmosphere; this new system operates from a telescope in Chile's high desert. The second Magellan telescope at Chile's Las Campanas observatory started watching the sky in 2002. Because it sits in the world's driest place, it doesn't have to contend with haze from humidity that distorts light from space. The observatory is also 7,810 feet above sea level, which reduces the amount of dense air the telescope has to...