Yepun's Laser Guide Star
An orange laser beam — used to produce an artificial star high up in Earth's atmosphere — emerges from 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: | shootingtothesky |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 27 October 2015, 12:13 |
Size: | 3648 x 5472 px |
About the Object
Name: | Laser Guide Star, Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Paranal |
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