Building and Testing Deformable Mirrors for Adaptive Optics

Atmospheric turbulence can severely distort incoming light for astronomers, making accurate observations challenging. To counteract this, adaptive optics systems are employed, which use deformable mirrors that can change shape in real time. In a recent demonstration by Huygens Optics, a deformable m... [More info]

@podfeet good get on this weeks Chit Chat Across the Pond podcast: Dr. Andrea Ghez, only the fourth woman ever to win the Nobel prize in physics! For context: how do we know there's a super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy? Dr. Andrea. That is how.
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