Very Large Telescope

This is a beautiful bird's eye view of the Very Large Telescope.

The VLT is a telescope on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile. The VLT consists of four individual telescopes, which are generally used separately but can be used together to achieve very high angular resolution. 

The VLT is the most productive ground-based facility for astronomy, with only the Hubble Space Telescope generating more scientific papers among facilities operating at visible wavelengths. Among the pioneering observations carried out using the VLT are the first direct image of an exoplanet, the tracking of individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, and the observations of the afterglow of the furthest known gamma-ray burst.