This new Very Large Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1055, which is located roughly…
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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.
By combining data from Chandra, VLT, and several other telescopes, astronomers reveal that the dimming…
A new survey by the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope indicates that halos…
Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, a team of astronomers reveals the Eta Carinae star…
An international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar…
This newly released ESO image shows the glowing gas cloud LHA 120-N55 in the Large…
This newly released image shows the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy. This scene, captured by ESO’s OmegaCAM on…
This new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope is the sharpest view ever of the…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers has captured the most detailed images…
Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has studied in detail for…
This newly released ESO image shows a spiral disc around HD 100453, which is located…
A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope provides the best view to date of…
According to new observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope reveals for the first time what appears to be an aging…
New research reveals that three billion years after the Big Bang, massive elliptical galaxies still…
New VLT observations confirm that the dusty gas cloud G2 made its closest approach to…
This newly released image from the VLT Survey Telescope shows the young open cluster NGC…
New observations from the Very Large Telescope along with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have…