The X-Shooter Rig
The X-shooter instrument, seen here at Paranal, collects up to half of all the light from an astronomical object across the ultraviolet (300 nm) to the near-infrared (2400 nm) regime all at once, rather than piecemeal among various observing facilities.
Credit:
ESO
About the Image
| Id: | paranal-vlt_x-shooter |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:19 |
| Size: | 5616 x 3744 px |
About the Object
| Name: | X-Shooter |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument • X - Paranal |
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