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October 6, 2005
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The same sunspot, with the Earth to scale and a simulation of atmospheric blurring.
In this version of the same image, a NASA photograph of Earth is added for scale. Both Earth and sunspot have been artificially blurred on the left half to simulate what the telescope would see through Earth's atmosphere without the adaptive optics system.
Credit: Mandatory credit: Friedrich Woeger, KIS, and Chris Berst and Mark Komsa, NSO/AURA/NSF
Images credited to the National Science Foundation, a federal agency, are in the public domain. The images were created by employees of the United States Government as part of their official duties or prepared by contractors as "works for hire" for NSF. You may freely use NSF-credited images and, at your discretion, credit NSF with a "Courtesy: National Science Foundation" notation.
Additional information about general usage can be found in Conditions.
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