How to Invert the Atmosphere

The atmosphere up there in space is interfering with the light from stars. If you have a few objects near each other, then when the atmosphere changes, it's changing the path of all those photons. And those objects get fuzzed together instead of getting a clear, crisp image. So if you change the shape of your mirror, you can sort of undo that and send the photons back as if the atmosphere hadn't happened. Even if you get out of the atmosphere, you might still see some twinkling. It's totally fascinating. There were a lot of articles a few years ago about this star called tabby star. Two thousand scientists saw this dimming of this star that nobody could