Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Orion bullets shot in detail (in Seven days: 4-10 January 2013)

http://tinyurl.com/ay6b995

January 9, 2013 - Nature News
The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been fitted with five lasers and three deformable mirrors, allowing astronomers to correct for atmospheric distortions over an exceptionally large field of view. On 9 January, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, California, astronomers unveiled the telescope’s ultra-sharp portrait of the ‘bullets’ of gas seen in the Orion Nebula...