Tranching Reality

Via Bad Astronomy:

A team just put together the sharpest ground-based image of Jupiter ever produced (with a higher resolution than Hubble’s, even):

This is pretty neat. Basically, they take several images of an object like Jupiter with stars in the background, and see how the stars’ light changes. It shouldn’t really change, but it does because of the atmosphere. So they can use this information to compensate for the atmosphere’s distortion. This image is also taken in infrared, a favorite spectrum of mine.