Star Found Zooming Around Milky Way's Black Hole
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Star Found Zooming Around Milky Way's Black Hole

Honolulu : HI : USA | Oct 04, 2012 at 11:42 AM PDT
Source: Epoch Times
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newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/news.aspx The two W...Using the adaptive optics technique, the lasers create an artificial star in the Earth's upper atmosphere, which allows measurement of the lower atmosphere's blurring effects (that makes stars twinkle in the night sky). FULL ARTICLE AT Epoch Times
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