Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called Laser Tomography...
...and has captured a spectacular image of the planet Neptune and other objects.
Using 4 lasers and the adaptive optics module GALACSI, the MUSE instrument can now be corrected for turbulence at different altitudes in the atmosphere...
...snapping images that are sharper than those from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The new mode, combined with the spectroscopic power of MUSE, will allow objects to be studied in much greater detail.
These major developments in adaptive optics are enhancing the already powerful fleet of ESO telescopes...
… and are hugely important to bring the Universe into focus for the future ELT.
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