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AOA Xinetics Provides Deformable Mirror for Solar Telescope

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DEVENS, Mass., Aug. 3, 2015 — AOA Xinetics, part of Northrup Grumman Corp., has engineered a deformable mirror (DM) for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest ground-based solar telescope. DKIST was developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Currently under construction on the island of Maui in Hawaii, the DKIST will offer unprecedented high-resolution, distortion-free images of the sun using adaptive optics technology. The project is being led by the National Solar Observatory and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, and...Read full article

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    Published: August 2015
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    astronomy
    The scientific observation of celestial radiation that has reached the vicinity of Earth, and the interpretation of these observations to determine the characteristics of the extraterrestrial bodies and phenomena that have emitted the radiation.
    lensesmirrorsastronomyBusinessAOA XineticsDaniel K. Inouye Solar TelescopeDKISTNational Solar ObservatoryOpticsImaging

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