Astronomy's quest for sharp images from blurred pictures to the Very Large Telescope /
Since the 1960s, astrophysical discoveries have blossomed, due to the emergence of powerful and new observational tools. Among them, a fantastic improvement of the sharpness of astronomical images, obtained with ground based optical telescopes, has been the result of two revolutions: adaptive optics...
| Main Author: | Léna, Pierre, 1937- |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (280 pages). |
| Series: |
Astronomers' universe.
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Table of Contents:
- A night at Paranal
- From the depth of ages
- Too god to be true? Adaptive optics
- The adventurers of sharpness: interferometry
- The Very Large Telescope (VLT), double victory against fuzzy images
- Imaging exoplanets
- Our neighbour the black hole
- The future will be into the details
- Epilogue.