![]() ![]() The VLT hotel, the Residencia, is an award-winning building, and served as a backdrop for part of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. More detailed background and technical information is provided in the VLT Whitebook.For Scientists: for more detailed information, please see our technical pages.Read more on about this telescope on the VLT Handout in PDF format.More images and videos are available in the ESO multimedia archive.More interesting facts are available on the FAQs page.ESO Top 10 Astronomical Discoveries, n° 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 (also available as presentation).The VLT has stimulated a new age of discoveries, with several notable scientific firsts, including the first image of an extrasolar planet ( eso0428), tracking individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way ( eso0846), and observing the afterglow of the furthest known Gamma-Ray Burst. VLT contributes greatly to making ESO the most productive ground-based observatory in the world. It is the most productive individual ground-based facility, and results from the VLT have led to the publication of an average of more than one peer-reviewed scientific paper per day. The VLT has made an undisputed impact on observational astronomy. More information is available on this link Science with the Very Large Telescope But four smaller, dedicated 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) are available to allow the VLTI to operate every night. ![]() Today, all four Unit Telescopes and all four Auxiliary Telescopes are operational.Īlthough the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes can be combined in the VLTI, they are mostly used for individual observations and are only available for interferometric observations for a limited number of nights every year. The first of the Unit Telescopes, 'Antu', went into routine scientific operations on 1 April 1999. This design minimises any adverse effects on the observing conditions, for instance from air turbulence in the telescope tube, which might otherwise occur due to variations in the temperature and wind flow. It is one of the worlds most advanced optical telescopes, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter. The 8.2m diameter telescopes are housed in compact, thermally controlled buildings, which rotate synchronously with the telescopes. It includes large-field imagers, adaptive optics corrected cameras and spectrographs, as well as high-resolution and multi-object spectrographs and covers a broad spectral region, from deep ultraviolet (300 nm) to mid-infrared (24 µm) wavelengths. The VLT instrumentation programme is the most ambitious programme ever conceived for a single observatory. Tourist, students and lay people, please see Tourists and Students Visits.Comments (2) Artists illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Journalists, science writers and producers, please see Media Visits Four galaxies investigated by the powerful space telescope are seen as they were just 350 million years after the Big Bang.NB: only live at night.Ĭlick on the image to take a Virtual Tour in and nearby the VLT. ![]()
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