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How sharp is the vision of a VLT Unit Telescope with adaptive optics?

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How sharp is the vision of a VLT Unit Telescope with adaptive optics?

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By removing the blurring effects of the Earth’s atmosphere, the VLT´s adaptive optics system achieves an angular resolution of about 50 milliarcseconds, which means that it can distinguish details smaller than the size of a DVD on the International Space Station, as seen from the ground.