1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,840 Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics 2 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:18,380 ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called Laser Tomography... 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:25,680 ...and has captured a spectacular image of the planet Neptune and other objects. 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:33,140 Using 4 lasers and the adaptive optics module GALACSI, the MUSE instrument can now be corrected for turbulence at different altitudes in the atmosphere... 5 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,320 ...snapping images that are sharper than those from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. 6 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:45,140 The new mode, combined with the spectroscopic power of MUSE, will allow objects to be studied in much greater detail. 7 00:00:46,540 --> 00:00:52,900 These major developments in adaptive optics are enhancing the already powerful fleet of ESO telescopes... 8 00:00:54,060 --> 00:00:59,860 … and are hugely important to bring the Universe into focus for the future ELT. 9 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:06,840 Transcribed by ESO; Translated by —