🔬 Science Aug 11, 2026 · Ethan Siegel

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If you want to view the Universe in a way that takes us past our current frontiers, you only have a few options. You can build a larger telescope: with greater surface area to collect light and a larger diameter to increase your resolution. You can polish your mirror’s surface to be more reflective and smoother: down to nanometer-scale precision. You can keep it clean and pristine: reducing your noise. You can build improved adaptive optics systems: better correcting for the distortion of the at

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