Closed-up Auxiliary

The 1.8-m Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile are smaller than their companions, the Unit Telescopes (UTs). What they lack in size, however, they more than make up for in their ingenious interferometry system.

Credit:

J. Milli/ESO

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Id:at-milky-way-cc
Type:Photographic
Release date:19 October 2016, 15:37
Size:3456 x 5184 px

About the Object

Name:Auxiliary Telescopes
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:Paranal

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