Science news articles about 'adaptive optics systems'

... to be installed on Gemini North by 2010 and is proposed for the VLT. With conventional adaptive optics systems like those on Gemini and Keck, the sharpening degrades with distance between the target ...

... the world's most advanced and capable optical telescope. A key part of the telescope's adaptive optics (AO) system, which will give TMT the sharpest eye possible on the Universe, was successfully ...

... host star. The furthest planet in the new system orbits just inside a disk of dusty ... Macintosh is constructing a much more advanced adaptive optics system designed from the beginning to block the light ...

... (400-inch) Keck II Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Keck II is equipped with a powerful adaptive optics system that corrects for the blurring of astronomical images caused by turbulence ...

... laser-assisted guide star (LGS) adaptive optics (AO) on the 10-meter Keck ... Further information on the Keck telescopes, their adaptive optics systems, and the OSIRIS instrument are available at: https ...

... direct images identifying a multi-planet system around a normal star. The Gemini images ... located in the solar neighborhood. The survey is using adaptive optics systems at Gemini, Keck and VLT in Chile ...

... of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), to benefit from both the high image quality provided by the Adaptive Optics system at infrared wavelengths and the good dynamics offered by the ...

... Earth's atmosphere drown out much of the spectacle of space. To address this problem, Berkeley astronomer James Graham and colleagues are designing an adaptive optics system that can spot new planets.