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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.
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers view the aftermath of supernova SN 1999em and its…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Fleming 1 is likely…
Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this new image from the European Southern Observatory is…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and…
Using the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of scientists believes that…
New images from European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope show detailed images of NGC 6357,…
By analyzing earthshine and observing the Moon using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, researchers are using…