The Gemini South telescope ... System (GeMS). The laser-guided advanced optics system cancels out atmospheric turbulence caused by Earth's atmosphere during observations. Images from the Gemini ...

To help take extra sharp images of space ... The sodium laser "constellation" – as scientists call it – is part of a telescope at the Gemini South Observatory in Chile and is the cornerstone ...

The event, captured by a series of remarkable images, includes one that clearly shows the five laser-produced stars shining in the sky. This first propagation of the Gemini South telescope laser ...

It took scientists more than a decade to develop and is now in regular use by the Gemini South Observatory located ... by the sight of the yellow-orange laser beam piercing the clear, moonlit ...

The remaining six images ... optical astronomy.” Gemini South telescope during laser operations with GeMS/GSAOI. Image taken by Manuel Paredes. Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA.

Stars viewed by an observatory in South America have just lost their twinkle. Images from this ... system could change that. Laser stars Like many other systems, the Gemini Multi-conjugate ...

But a new development at Gemini South observatory (shown ... than a typical handheld unit – the laser is tuned to sodium atoms' strong yellow emission at 589 nanometres. After being split ...

Stars viewed by an observatory in South America have just lost their twinkle. Images from this ... system could change that. Laser stars Like many other systems, the Gemini Multi-conjugate ...

An image released today by the Gemini Observatory brings into focus ... The system deploys a yellow/orange solid-state sodium laser that produces the artificial guide star by exciting and causing ...

Mountain was the director of the Gemini Observatory ... images with exquisitely uniform image quality across the entire field of view. GeMS is the first of its kind to combine laser guide stars ...

Images from this ground-based telescope are brighter and clearer than ever before, thanks to a new instrument on the Gemini South observatory ... Up Star View] "We use laser guide stars instead ...

On December 16, 2011, a decade of hard work culminated at the Gemini South telescope ... times more detail in images of planets, stars, nebulae, or galaxies. The Gemini Observatory is an ...