Yepun's Laser Guide Star
An orange laser beam — used to produce an artificial star high up in Earth's atmosphere — emerges from a moonlit Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes that form part of ESO's Very Large Telescope, situated atop Cerro Paranal in northern Chile.
Credit:ESO/F. Char
About the Image
| Id: | undermoonlight |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 27 October 2015, 12:29 |
| Size: | 5472 x 3648 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Laser Guide Star, Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | Paranal |
