The top image was taken using the 8.1-meter Gemini South Telescope, using its Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System; the bottom was obtained with the 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope.

Astronomers have developed a new visible-light adaptive optics (AO) system for a 6.5 meter telescope in Chile's Atacama desert. The new AO system produces the sharpest telescopic images ever ...

The adaptive optics module isn't just meant to help study planets in our solar system — it can also produce sharper images of stars beyond our galaxy, like globular cluster NGC 6388. (Image ...

The adaptive optics system here has allowed researchers to improve the resolution from the 1000 km resolution of other solar telescopes down to nearly the theoretical limit of this telescope—63 km.

Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopes ... The system was able to image photoreceptors as close as 1.4 degrees eccentric to the fovea area of the retina, where photoreceptors have an average ...

While TAROQQO facilitates real-time turbulence forecasting to optimize experimental conditions, the fast adaptive optics system actively rectifies turbulence-induced errors, ensuring dependable ...

Currently, the observatory is upgrading to more powerful lasers, one part of a $50 million overhaul of the entire adaptive optics system. Illustration by John Bretschneider.

The 5.4 km free-space quantum communication link between the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council Canada, where real-time atmospheric turbulence measurements were conducted to ...

In order to apply adaptive optics technology to the tactical environment, the High Power Adaptive Optic system will employ ultra-high speed, state-of-the-art processing and sensor technologies. The ...

The sodium laser "constellation" – as scientists call it – is part of a telescope at the Gemini South Observatory in Chile and is the cornerstone for a next-generation adaptive optics system.