Gemini North's Laser Guide Star

Gemini North telescope, half of the International Gemini Observatory, shines a low power laser into the sky to create a laser guide star. This laser guide star serves as a reference for the telescope's adaptive optics system so that it can 'cancel out' the effect of atmospheric turbulence on the images of its actual targets.

Credit:

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard

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Release date:Nov. 26, 2023, 1:04 a.m.
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