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Ep. 583: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

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How to Measure Speckling in the Centre of Our Galaxy

Wia takut explains why these observations were so difficult. Between us and the saje star is a whole out of dust, which makes it impossible to see all the way to the distance of the centre of our galaxy using an optical telescope. Our atmosphere is a noisy moving thing that causes light coming through our atmosphere to get re acted in variable ways as it travels that distance. To compensate for that, what we often do as we use adaptive optics, which works to tilt, tip different systems,. flex different systems within the telescope to compensate for the motions of the atmosphere. And you can see things that you can't see in any one image, but they are able to be seen in

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