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Star Wars gets a little closer. The February 10, 2021 APOD featured a set of four lasers used to help eliminate atmospheric blurring of images from ground based telescopes. That same technology is now being deployed at a European Space Agency (ESA) ground station in Tenerife, Spain. Next on the drawing board? Laser satellite communications. Pretty cool stuff.