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, ...

The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Paranal Observatory has just seen another extension of its already impressive capabilities by combining interferometrically the light from two ...

By using the full power of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), an international team of astronomers has discovered exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars.

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 ...

The new MATISSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made its first observations at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. MATISSE is the mo… ...

The Very Large Telescope consists of four Unit Telescopes. With the four Unit Telescopes combined, a huge interferometer is made: the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The new MATISSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made its first observations at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile.