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.
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. Read more...