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8. Adaptive optics is able to provide sharpe images than Hubble currently with ground based telescopes.

Mon Jun 5, 2017, 05:39 AM

Jun 2017

check out the pictures at: http://exoplanet.as.arizona.edu/~lclose/a302/Lecture11/Lecture_11.html

article at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-telescope-magazine/beyond-the-printed-page/adaptive-optics-before-and-after/

The adaptive optics technique isn't perfect, but it is a lot cheaper to build a telescope for the Earth than to launch it into space.

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