Astronomers at work or space battle?

If you ignore the caption on April 25th’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, you’d think it was a still frame from a science fiction movie. From the angle of the photo, the concrete tower of the observatory looks like a spar of battle cruiser. And the ruby red beam of the laser, looks like, well, a zap gun.

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