VLT and laser guide under stars. Stars over the Yepun telescope of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) shining a laser guide at the Paranal Observatory,Atacama desert,Chile. This beam creates a guide star in the atmosphere,which is used to calibrate the telescope to remove the effects of the atmosphere on observations,a process known as adaptive optics | |
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