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The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-meter ...
A new state-of-the-art telescope has taken its first impressive images of the southern sky over the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The European Southern Observatory's new VLT Survey Telescope took ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO’s Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the ...
Hot Spot Cosmic Accelerators: VLT Images Intergalactic Shock Date: November 27, 2002 Source: European Southern Observatory Summary: With larger telescopes and ever-more sophisticated instruments ...
With a core angular diameter of only 0.07 arcsec, the first K-band images are near the theoretical limit possible for a telescope of this size and at this infrared wavelength.
The VLT Survey Telescope is a huge 2.6-meter telescope located in the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. This location, at high altitude with very little rainfall and far ...
Images of Titan on November 20, 25 and 26, 2002 Through Five Filters (VLT YEPUN + NACO) [Preview – JPEG: 522 x 400 pix – 40k] [Normal – JPEG: 1043 x 800 pix – 340k] ...
Image of the spiral galaxy IC 5332, located at a distance of about 30 million light years from us, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope). (Image credit: INAF/VST-SMASH/C. Tortora et al. (2024)) ...
Near-infrared images of the active galaxy NGC 1097, obtained with the NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, disclose with unprecedented detail a complex central network ...
VLT-eye-view of the nearby galaxy M96. Photo by ESO/Oleg Maliy. Not bad, eh? The two images are oriented the same way (note the dust band going into the nucleus in both shots), but VLT has a field ...
In preparation for the imminent arrival of NASA's Juno spacecraft, astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope to obtain spectacular new infrared images of Jupiter. They are part of a ...
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a ...