... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... A galaxy is born: This artist's impression shows a young galaxy, about two billion years after the Big Bang, accreting material from the surrounding hydrogen and helium gas and forming many young stars. ... Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have observed another process which helped primordial galaxies grow. ...

... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

... On 26 October 2009 in Moscow, in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) a meeting was held of the leading Russian scientists and statesmen with the Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw and the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey. ... Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw. ... Balega, the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey, Director General of the ESO Tim de Zeeuw, deputy director of the SAO RAS V.V.Vlasuyk . ...

... 2000 July 7 . Sirius, Sun, Moon, and Southern Cross . Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) . Explanation: From left to right are the enclosures of Yepun ( ye-poon ; Sirius ), Antu ( an-too ; Sun ), Kueyen ( qua-yen ; Moon ), and Melipal ( me-li-pal ; Southern Cross ), pictured here as night falls at Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. These are the four 8.2 meter wide telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). ... About APOD | ...

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Observatories 3 --- | ... The 4 8-metre telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) are coming into operation in late 1999/early 2000 at that site. ... The two shown in this picture are the domes of the 1.5 metre and 1.0 metre telescopes. ... The 1.0 metre and 2.5 metre at LCO . ... The main telescope at present is the Du Pont 2.5-metre (the largest, most distant dome in this picture); the second open dome is the 40-inch; the small dome, the Toronto 24-inch (since moved to Argentina). ...

... NGC 613: Spiral of Dust and Stars . ... One result was this stunning view of beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 , a mere 65 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor . Over 100 thousand light-years across, NGC 613 seems to have more than its fair share of spiral arms laced with cosmic dust clouds and bright star forming regions near the ends of a dominant central bar. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy - star formation - dust . ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

. NICMOS and the VLT . A New Era of High Resolution Near Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy . An International Workshop held in Pula, Sardinia, Italy . May 26-27, 1998 . Edited by Wolfram Freudling and Richard Hook . HTML and PDF versions by Norbert Pirzkal . ESO Conference and Workshop Proceedings No.55 . EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY . Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany . їCopyright 1998 by the European Southern Observatory . ISBN 3-923524-58-7 .

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