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TMS 2324: Burper Phone

The Morning Stream

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Is There a Centre?

Those flares that you're seeing actually a every every time you see a flare, it's a certain, exact, exactly the same number of flares in every star. It's because each of those lines, those rays radiating out from a star, corresponds to where two of the mirrors from the telescope actually come together. And so that's why you're seeing that is just a refraction prat pattern as as result of am how the mirrors are constructed.

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