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Testing laser on Gemini North Telescope
As stars appear to circle around the north celestial pole, a new laser at the Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii’s Maunakea undergoes rigorous testing.
[The international Gemini Observatory is a program of the U.S. National Science Foundation's NOIRLab.]
Learn more in the NOIRLab news story Circumpolar laser tests at Gemini North. (Date of image: October 2019; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Oct. 15, 2022)
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Chu/J. Pollard (Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)
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