When it was completed in 1998, the Very Large Telescope was the biggest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

(Phys.org) —With this new view of a spectacular stellar nursery ESO is celebrating 15 years of the Very Large Telescope—the world's most advanced optical instrument.

Auxiliary Telescopes and the Milky Way." Captured from the platform of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern ...

On its maiden survey, Gravity successfully combined starlight from the VLT's four Auxiliary Telescopes, pointed at a region of the sky in the Orion nebula, to identify a previously unknown binary ...

lined up beautifully in the sky. The largest sphere in this photo is one of the VLT’s four Auxiliary Telescopes. These movable telescopes can be arranged in different configurations to achieve ...

The VLT is one of the world’s most advanced optical telescopes, consisting of four unit telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter auxiliary telescopes.

The Very Large Telescope domes at dawn ... ago with its four large telescopes (8.2 meters in diameter) and four auxiliary telescopes (1.8 meters), the gaze that plunges towards the Chilean ...

The scene was captured on Jan. 19 beside one of the auxiliary telescopes that contribute to ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, a system of four telescopes working in unison. ESO fellow ...

Four bright lasers, the most powerful ever put on a telescope, fire into the night sky to create an artificial guide star for the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at the ...

The Paranal Observatory is situated on Cerro Paranal, 8,645 feet above sea level, and is home to the famous Very Large Telescope (VLT), among other instruments. The VLT played a key role in ...

Last month, the European Southern Observatory released a composite picture taken by its Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. "In this picture of the ...