The image shows an opto-mechanical design model for the Adaptive Optics Bench (AOB). Adaptive optics is a process where the effects of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere are corrected optically. In the ...
For astronomers, it’s a magical moment: you’re staring at a monitor, and a blurry image of a cosmological object sharpens up, revealing new details. We call this “closing the loop,” a reference to the ...