Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of ...

The photo was taken by Eduardo Garcés from the Cerro Paranal mountain, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, which is about 14 miles (23 kilometers) from the ELT, capturing a silhouette of the dome ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for the ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope observed asteroid 2024 YR4 in Jan. 2025. The probability of the asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 has dropped to .001%.

Jean Vernin, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón, Marc Sarazin, Héctor Vazquez Ramió, Antonia M. Varela, Hervé Trinquet, José Miguel Delgado, Jesús Jiménez Fuensalida ...

The images display a vast collection of previously unobserved solar objects — and in doing so, they may uproot long-accepted theories of how stars form This advertisement has not loaded yet, but ...

The nod‐shuffle approach should be of great benefit to most spectroscopic (e.g., long slit, fiber, integral field) methods and would allow much deeper spectroscopy on very large telescopes (10 m or ...

Except for a handful of very large bodies imaged by ground-based telescopes, virtually all exoplanets have been detected only when they briefly dim the light coming from their host stars or when ...

Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope. The photo suggests ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.