The Moon is the first celestial object to catch our eyes. For some amateur astronomers, it quickly becomes a bother, its light obscuring the “faint fuzzies” we try to catch in our telescopes. Or, like ...

How do astroimagers get such sharp images of the Sun, Moon, and planets? The answer is a technique called lucky imaging. As every astronomer has witnessed, the atmosphere roils with waves as hot and ...

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