I was watching the only mildly irritating "Beginner's guide to the cosmos" on beeb 2 on Tuesday which revealed that the VLT (Very Large Telescope - and they say scientists have no sense of humour) in Mexico has, for the first time ever, photographed a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun.
It can do this because the giant mirrors it uses are mounted on thousands of tiny pistons that minutely adjust the shape of the mirrors thousands of times a second to compensate for the distorting effect of Earth's atmosphere on light travelling from outer-space.Statistics: Posted by Captain Howdy — Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:22 am
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