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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
esoastronomy@astrodon.social ("ESO") wrote:

To clarify: this is only possible thanks to adaptive optics, which corrects atmospheric turbulence and allows us to read those tiny labels.

https://xkcd.com/3066/

#astrodon #astronomy

A cartoon with a stick figure pointing at a whiteboard with an image of the night sky. A small patch on that image is amplified several times until one can read the name of a star and its distance. A text at the bottom reads: “Cosmology news: new telescopes are finally powerful enough to read the little labels next to stars showing how far away they are.”