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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, which is the first of its kind from outside the Milky Way, shows that the ...
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...
The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...
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 ...
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.
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.