Taking the twinkle out of the night sky: Breakthrough in adaptive optics

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 16:28 in Astronomy & Space

A team of astronomers has developed a technique that allows them to switch off star twinkling over a wide field of view, enabling Earth-based telescopes to obtain images as crisp as those taken with the Hubble Space Telescope -- and much more quickly.

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