Adaptive Optics Explained! In Comic Form

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Emily Coren is an accomplished illustrator and scientist, and she's figured out how to bring those two skills together to make science easier to understand: science illustrations.

On her blog

, Emily regularly illustrates complex scientific topics, creating beautiful images which are half-art/half-educational resource. She illustrates the

landscapes out her window

on plane flights,

jellyfish in the aquarium

, and

sexy ferns

.

Emily completed a series last year on

how adaptive optics works

. This is the technology that increases the resolution of both telescopes and microscopes, and she gave us permission to reprint the series here on Universe Today.

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.