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Saturday, 24 August 2013

This is a picture of the Orion nebula as you’ve never seen it 

before. It was taken with a new camera that allows 

telescopes on Earth to counteract the effects of 

atmospheric 

distortion, creating images twice as sharp as the Hubble 

space telescope. That makes this one of the sharpest 

pictures of the cosmos ever taken. 

The new technology works so well, scientists report “it’s 

almost like having a telescope with a 21-foot mirror in 

space.” For comparison, Hubble’s primary mirror is not quite 

8 feet in diameter (2.4m).

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