The HEART of the Matter: How Software Scientists are Sharpening Our View of the Stars
Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? While it makes for a beautiful nursery rhyme, for astronomers, that “twinkle” is a nightmare. It is actually the Earth’s atmosphere distorting starlight, turning crisp points of light into blurry blobs. To fix this, we use a technology called Adaptive Optics (AO)—a system […]