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University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute

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The special camera is Irish, and the software programs were specially developed over five years at the Niels Bohr Institute by three astronomers and two Ph.D. students. It takes 40 images per second and the resolution is just as fantastic as if it was out in space. It is now sitting on the Danish telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The main purpose of the camera is to observe exoplanets, which are planets orbiting a star other than the Sun, but the sensitive camera has also shown its strength for making extremely precise observations of other objects.

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Jesper Skottfelt, Niels Bohr Institute

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Credit Jesper Skottfelt, Niels Bohr Institute.

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