Neptune
looks extremely sharp and
very blue in
these new images
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Several billion miles from Earth, Neptune's looking particularly
sharp in a set of new
images captured by one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.
Located in Chile, the European Southern Observatory's
very Large Telescope (VLT) used what's known as laser tomography to capture test
images of the planet and surrounding star clusters.
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The telescope's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument works with what's called the GALACSI adaptive optics module.This allows the telescope to correct for turbulence at different altitudes in the atmosphere, resulting in some incredibly clear,
sharp images captured from Earth.
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