The Very Large Telescope is situated at the European Southern Observatory's site atop Cerro Paranal, which is 8,645 feet (2,635 m) above sea level in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located ...

You may have heard of the Very Large Telescope, but did you know it can function as a massive 200-meter-wide virtual telescope? ... Pokemon Unite - Official Suicune Overview Trailer.

This image, taken with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the nearby galaxy NGC 4254. NGC 4254 is a grand-design spiral galaxy located ...

With this, all four of VLT's 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes are working together as a single giant telescope. This is a huge achievement for the VLT, which was first thought of back in the 1980s, ...

The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has for the first time been used to combine light from all four of the 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. Combining light […] ...

This cloud of orange and red, part of the Sh2-284 nebula, is shown here in spectacular detail using data from the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This ...

The Very Large Telescope has a pretty nice infrared detector, called VISIR (VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed). VISIR is great at taking infrared photos of the cosmos, but it's not ...

The ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) during observations. In this picture, taken from the VLT platform looking north-northwest at twilight, the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes ...

Very Large Telescope joins Breakthrough search for Alpha Centauri’s planets. by Alan Boyle on January 9, 2017 at 10:59 am January 9, 2017 at 3:44 pm. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

Astronomers have used the VLT and Hubble telescopes to reveal how star formation shut down in distant galaxies just three billion years after the Big Bang. Focusing on huge galaxies known as ...