Light arriving from the stars is refracted by the atmosphere in the same way that a stick apparently bends when dipped into the water. Our Keck images are very sharp compared to optical images. This same valuable Keck data will in turn be available to students who decide to pursue UCC's new degree course in Astrophysics, which gets underway this autumn. The decision to introduce this degree arose because of significant student interest, he said. The first two years of the Astrophysics degree programme are general physics, with the last two focusing on astrophysics.
Astrophysics is a very computational pursuit.