X-shooter
One of the VLT’s observatories gets outfitted with X-shooter. This instrument collects up to half of all the light from an astronomical object across the ultraviolet (300 nm) to the near-infrared (2400 nm) regime all at once, rather than piecemeal among various observing facilities.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | paranal-vlt-x-shooter |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:18 |
Size: | 5503 x 3744 px |
About the Object
Name: | X-Shooter |
Type: | Unspecified : People : Scientist Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
Category: | Paranal |
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