We acknowledge the European Community, which granted this Extremely Large Telescope Design Study ... Fort, B. 1986, in 2nd Workshop on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, ed. S. D’Odorico, & J.-P. Swings ...

Chief among these is Paranal Observatory, built and operated by the European Southern Observatory ... at the ELT and 0.27 percent at the Very Large Telescope, also located in the Atacama Desert.

Light pollution from a planned renewable energy project in Chile could significantly impact the European Southern Observatory ...

Astronomers sound the alarm as a proposed renewable hydrogen project in Chile threatens to disrupt the pristine night skies ...

The VLT is the most highly developed optical instrument in the world and the flagship for European astronomy. It consists of four main telescopes each with a mirror diameter of 8.2 metres and four ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for ...

A new view from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) captures the abundant star-forming region at the center of the Milky Way. The VLT, located in Chile's Atacama ...

the site of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) 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 ...

Artwork: Cheops observes exoplanets as they pass in front of their host stars Europe's newest space telescope has begun ... than our own Jupiter that orbits very close to a star called HD 93396.

The European Southern Observatory is at serious ... Paranal Observatory is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which comprises four telescopes each with a 27-foot (8.2-meter) mirror ...