Hidden in one of the darkest corners of the Orion constellation, this Cosmic Bat is…
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Find the latest astronomy and astrophysics news out of the ESO VLT on SciTechDaily.com. Operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is a visible and infrared wavelength telescope facility. It is the world’s most advanced optical instrument, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes. The four separate optical telescopes are known as Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, and Yepun, which are all words for astronomical objects in the Mapuche language. The telescopes can work together, to form a giant ‘interferometer,’ the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, allowing astronomers to see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.
While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope,…
FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has observed the active star-forming region…
A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope,…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode…
Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large…
The new MATISSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made…
The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has for the first time…
A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by…
These images were taken by ESO’s SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) instrument, installed on ESO’s…
The VLT Survey Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the lenticular galaxy…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers has detected titanium oxide in an…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes.…
The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed…
Using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, a team of astronomers has found what looks like three…
A new image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) captures the glowing cloud of gas…
This newly released image from the CRIRES instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows a…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material…