The Very Large Telescope

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is actually four separate telescopes, each with a 8.4-m mirror. The telescopes are located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, South America. The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world, and as such is home to many astronomical observatories, visual and radio alike. The observatory is located on a mountain peak, 2600 m above sea level. Due to its position on top of a high mountain range, just close to the pacific coast, almost every night is clear at this place. The humidity is low allowing observations in almost all wavelength ranges, except those that are only accessible from space. Thanks to the excellent infrastructure in Chile, going there is nowadays only a matter of one or two days, which allows astronomers to travel from the UK to the observatory and observe their targets. In fact, the ESO Paranal Observatory (which host the VLT telescopes ,see picture) is one of the largest observatories in the world with about one hundred technicians and scientists being on site every day.

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