Oh, what's an astronomer to do? Faced with a messy sky, stars scattered here and there, faint and bright, how can we ever measure them? Perhaps we should turn to artists. Urs Wehrli has an idea of how to fix this situation. Faced with this picture:
Straightening up the cosmos
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