Adaptive optics lifts Earth's atmospheric veil to reveal a sharper cosmos

Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have achieved first light with a cutting-edge adaptive optics mode for the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), designed to remove interference caused by Earth's atmosphere. The ESO has released some of the first images captured following the upgrade, and impressively, they appear even sharper than comparable shots taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Category: Space

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• Adaptive optics
• E-ELT
• ESO
• Neptune
• VLT

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