Structure support
The telescope tube consists of a steel structure supporting at the bottom the primary mirror (M1) in its cell, and at the top the M2 Unit by means of metallic beams called "spiders".
Credit:ESO/C. Malin
About the Image
| Id: | malin_8965 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 11 April 2013, 11:37 |
| Size: | 2832 x 4256 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | Paranal |
