This isn't a scene from Star Wars.
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This isn't a scene from Star Wars.
What you're looking at is the Tarantual Nebula, and those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes of our Very Large Telescope Interferometer in #Chile. They create artificial stars 90 km above the ground to correct atmospheric turbulence, allowing the VLTI to observe faint targets.
But why are four telescopes observing the same target? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/
A. Berdeu/ESO#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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This isn't a scene from Star Wars.
What you're looking at is the Tarantual Nebula, and those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes of our Very Large Telescope Interferometer in #Chile. They create artificial stars 90 km above the ground to correct atmospheric turbulence, allowing the VLTI to observe faint targets.
But why are four telescopes observing the same target? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/
A. Berdeu/ESO#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
@esoastronomy Of course that’s not Star Wars… anyone can see that’s Star TREK!
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This isn't a scene from Star Wars.
What you're looking at is the Tarantual Nebula, and those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes of our Very Large Telescope Interferometer in #Chile. They create artificial stars 90 km above the ground to correct atmospheric turbulence, allowing the VLTI to observe faint targets.
But why are four telescopes observing the same target? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/
A. Berdeu/ESO#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
Alas! I liked the Tarantula Nebula, and now it's gone.
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@spacelizard that's the spirit
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Alas! I liked the Tarantula Nebula, and now it's gone.
@mespique we set the lasers to stun, don't worry
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