Laser guided stars and the Milky Way
Here we can see a laser guide star as an orange beam, forming an artificial star created for use in astronomical adaptive optics imaging. The Milky Way creates another path in the sky, just above the VLT UTs
Credit:ESO/C. Malin
About the Image
Id: | malin_7697 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 11 April 2013, 11:49 |
Size: | 4256 x 2832 px |
About the Object
Name: | Laser Guide Star, Milky Way, Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Paranal |
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