The Very Large Telescope is situated atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 m) ... An interferometer is when several separate telescopes work in unison as one, ...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer is able to combine light collected by the telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), either the four 8-metre Unit Telescopes or the four smaller ...

This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer. This is the first close-up picture of a star ...

This is the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer.

A few months from now, light from celestial objects will be directed for the first time towards ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the Paranal Observatory (Chile).

Visible-light interferometry has been achieved with telescopes close together—the Very Large Telescope Interferometer uses four eight-meter telescopes a few dozen meters apart from one another.