University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have taken advantage of a recently mounted laser guide star system at UC’s Lick Observatory to obtain sharp, twinkle-free images of the faint dusty ...

The new adaptive optics facility being built at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile passed a key milestone in the past few weeks, achieving "first light" with one of its four new laser guide star ...

Following five years of development work, a new solid-state laser designed for guide star systems in giant telescopes is ready for deployment. Last week, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said ...

Ground-based telescopes have long contended with atmospheric turbulence that diminishes image clarity, and the advent of adaptive optics combined with laser guide stars has been transformative in ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. — A new sodium laser is giving 50 times more sky coverage to the atmospheric-correcting technology known as adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The laser ...