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Astronomy) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The VLT consists of four 27-foot telescopes that can work together as a single system through the VLTI, combining their light to achieve the resolving power of a much larger telescope.
This allows astronomers to distinguish fine details in distant cosmic objects, down to features hundreds of times smaller than what can be seen with a single telescope alone.While this image was captured in Chile, the laser beams were targeted at a point 56 miles above Earth’s surface.Polishing a telescope mirror to perfection | Space photo of the day for Oct. 6, 2025The four beams produced bright artificial “stars," which act as guides to help astronomers correct for the distortions caused byabout 160,000 light-years away. The nebula is a cosmic nursery where some of the most massive and luminous stars known are born, making it an ideal target for testing the improved precision and sensitivity of the GRAVITY+ system. Observing this region helps astronomers study how massive stars form and evolve, and how their intense radiation and winds shape the surrounding interstellar environment.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsKenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a freelance science journalist. Her beats include quantum technology, AI, animal intelligence, corvids, and cephalopods.
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