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Original - Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) site in Chile are measuring the distortions of Earth's ever changing atmosphere.
Reason
No, not a planetary defence system. Sure, it is a bit noisy, but I don't think it matters. A related shot had a five minute exposure at iso 1600 on a 400D. Dropping the ISO would start to create star trails.
Articles in which this image appears
Adaptive optics
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Astronomy
Creator
ESO/Y. Beletsky

Promoted File:Laser Towards Milky Ways Centre.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:13, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]