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Very Large Telescope logo #21000 The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The VLT consists of four individual telescopes, each with a primary mirror 8.2 m across, which are generally used separately but can be used together to achieve very high angular resolution. The four...
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Very Large Telescope

Very Large Telescope logo #21003(from the article `European Southern Observatory`) ESO operates at two sites in Chile—the La Silla Observatory, located about 600 km (370 miles) north of Santiago at an altitude of 2,400 metres (7,900 ...
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Very Large Telescope

Very Large Telescope logo #21160(VLT) Four identical 8.2-meter telescopes, known as Antu ('Sun' in the language of Chile's indigenous Mapuche people), Kueyen (Moon), Melipal (Southern Cross), and Yepen (Venus), at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal (altitude 2,600 m)...
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