ESO Records Sharpest Ever Telescope Images

This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by teh European Commmission's ""Europe by Satellite"" (EBS) service. A team from French and German research institutes and ESO at the paranal observatory is celebration ""First Light"" for the NAOS-CONICA Adaptive Optics facility, another important milestone for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) project.

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Images of stars and galaxies that are 100 times sharper than what can normally be made from Earth - this is what scientists at ESA, Europe's organisation for astronomy, can look forward to thanks to the development of a unique camera for the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory.
The Very Large Telescope - of for short the VLT - is the word's most advanced ground-based astronomical telescope. For the last couple of years, the VLT has produced spectacular scientific results. Still, the performance of the VLT, as that of any ground-based telescope, is limited by the ever-changing conditions of the terrestrial atmosphere, and the resulting degradations of the image sharpness.
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Placed in orbit, outside the denser part of the atmosphere, the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope, though relatively small enjoys a considerable advantage and has provided the world with crystal-clear images of stars and glaxies.
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For a long time, astronomers at the ground based facilities have dre