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Ep. 643: Sagittarius A*

Astronomy Cast

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Stacking Planetary Images

Sosaje star is four million solar masses to soaworle's six and a half billion times mass. One of the images, or sets of images rather, that they gave us is one that shows the different distributions of how the gas kept interfering with trying to get a clear image. They used a technique somewhat similar to lucky imaging, where they were looking for images that had the same pattern. When you're stacking planetary images, it's our atmosphere that's causing the problems.

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