The Keck laser guide star system enables astronomers to study more objects with adaptive optics than ever before. With Keck adaptive optics, astronomers make infrared images with four times better resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope images.

For more, see Press Release from 1/4/02.

Credit: Adam Contos, W. M. Keck Observatory

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