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.

The new telescope, known as Auxiliary Telescope no. 1 (AT1), forms part of the VLT Interferometer (VLTI). It has a main mirror of 1.8-m diameter and is installed in a compact dome. In contrast to ...

(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.

Following the installation of the first Auxiliary Telescope (AT) in January 2004 (see ESO PR 01/04), the second AT arrived at the VLT platform by the end of 2004. Shortly thereafter, during the ...

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 ...

Crystal-clear skies and perfectly dry air combine to make the Atacama Desert in Chile one of the best spots in the world to peer into the vastness of space. Light and other electromagnetic ...

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 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 European Southern Observatory is at serious risk of losing the clear skies above its Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, officials said, due to a proposed industrial complex put ...

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 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.