Thursday, 8 August 2013

Very Large Telescope: The First Fifteen Years of Discovery | ScienceWatch | Thomson Reuters

Very Large Telescope: The First Fifteen Years of Discovery | ScienceWatch | Thomson Reuters

Europe’s flagship visible-light observatory, the Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is located on Cerro Paranal (elevation 2, 635m) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently celebrated the 15th anniversary of the telescope achieving “first light.”

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