Very Large Telescope at sunset
This stunning wide angle image shows ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) as the sun sets over the site at Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert.
Visible here are the four Unit Telescopes with mirrors 8.2 metres in diameter and the four moveable 1.8-metre diameter Auxiliary Telescopes.
Credit:John Colosimo (colosimophotography.com)/ESO
About the Image
Id: | colosimo-130703-001 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 30 July 2013, 10:33 |
Size: | 7943 x 3029 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Paranal |
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