Reaching for the stars!

Chilean astrophotographer Alexis Trigo captured the VLT Unit Telescope 4, shooting its laser beams to create artificial stars high up in the atmosphere.

This allows astronomers to correct for atmospheric turbulence that blurs data: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2611a/

📷 ESO/A. Trigo

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