Milky Way behind a VLT Auxiliary Telescope

This beautiful image shows the Milky Way stretched out behind one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT has stimulated a new age of discoveries, with several notable scientific firsts, including the first image of an extrasolar planet, tracking individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

Credit:

Y. Beletsky/ESO

About the Image

Id:airglow_ats_beletsky-CC
Type:Photographic
Release date:4 December 2018, 09:47
Size:9426 x 5302 px

About the Object

Name:Auxiliary Telescopes, Large Magellanic Cloud, Milky Way, Small Magellanic Cloud
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility
Category:Paranal

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