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Chile Fires Lasers Into the Sky to Create “Artificial Stars”: the Technology that Is Revolutionizing Astronomy

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From the Atacama Desert, world-class telescopes fire lasers into the atmosphere to generate artificial guide stars. This technology corrects for atmospheric distortion and allows for much sharper images of distant galaxies, nebulae, and exoplanets. Laser beams from the Very Large Telescope illuminate the sky over northern Chile to create artificial stars and observe the universe with maximum precision (February 17). Credit: ESO / G. Hüdepohl (es…
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From the Atacama Desert, world-class telescopes fire lasers into the atmosphere to generate artificial guide stars. This technology corrects for atmospheric distortion and allows for much sharper images of distant galaxies, nebulae, and exoplanets. Laser beams from the Very Large Telescope illuminate the sky over northern Chile to create artificial stars and observe the universe with maximum precision (February 17). Credit: ESO / G. Hüdepohl (es…

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meteored.cl broke the news in on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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