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Meet the Very Large Telescope, the world’s most powerful optical telescope
On a mountaintop in Chile sits one of the world’s most powerful optical telescopes: the Very Large Telescope, or VLT for short. ⁠ ⁠ The VLT has taken spectacular snapshots of swirling nebulae and far-away galaxies. But it was not built just to take pretty pictures. In the 20 years since the VLT saw first light, it has given researchers of ...
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