Ground Observatory

VLT — Very Large Telescope (Cerro Paranal)

Operated by ESO (European Southern Observatory) on Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert at 2,635 m altitude, the VLT consists of four 8.2 m telescopes that can be combined as a single interferometer. It has directly imaged an exoplanet (

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