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“Twisted Mirrors Sharpen the View”, pages 29 and 30.

Discover, March 15, 2002, Volume and Number (not present)

1. Stars twinkle due to the bending of light caused by layers of earth’s atmosphere.

2. The “twinkling” of stars makes it difficult to observe nearby planets clearly.

1. To get away from the “twinkle” NASA placed the Hubble Space Telescope in space above the atmosphere.

2. A second way to avoid the “twinkle” of stars when looking through a telescope is to use optical technology to unscramble the effects of turbulence.

3. Binoculars and video cameras are already being sold with the ability to remove the jiggles created by the user.

4. When anti-twinkling technology is used on the world’s largest earth based telescopes, images as sharp as Hubble’s can be acquired.

5. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has used this technology to create eyeglasses that can double the sharpness of normal vision to 20/10.

6. The military is interested in this technology for spy satellites that can already see the top of a human head from space.

7. Adaptive optics technology uses flexible mirrors to reflect light images in a manner that helps to eliminate atmospheric turbulence. The results are much sharper images.

8. Super telescopes with 15-foot mirrors have a hard time adjusting because they span such a large amount of the atmosphere.

I found this article fascinating because this technology could greatly improve the vision of people suffering from eye problems. The technology could also assist astronomers trying to find new planets, stars and galaxies. The military is interested in this technology to keep track of the activities of others.

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