ESOcast 43 Special: Seeing Sharp -- Special 50th anniversary episode #3
The third special episode of this series -- ESOcast 43 overall -- presents ESO’s flagship facility: the Very Large Telescope (VLT). In this episode we discover the state-of-the-art technology behind this telescope, which has provided astronomers with an unequalled view of the Universe.
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| ESOcast 22: The most distant galaxy ever measured | ESOcast 21: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) | ESOcast 20: Richest planetary system discovered | ESOcast 19: Photographers of the Night |
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| ESOcast 18: Exoplanet Caught on the Move | ESOcast 17: Constructing ALMA — The World's Largest Observatory | ESOcast 16: E-ELT Site Chosen | ESOcast 15: Recoating a Giant VLT Mirror |
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