Milky Way behind a VLT Auxiliary Telescope
This beautiful image shows the Milky Way stretched out behind one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT has stimulated a new age of discoveries, with several notable scientific firsts, including the first image of an extrasolar planet, tracking individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
Credit:Y. Beletsky/ESO
About the Image
| Id: | airglow_ats_beletsky-CC |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 4 December 2018, 09:47 |
| Size: | 9426 x 5302 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Auxiliary Telescopes, Large Magellanic Cloud, Milky Way, Small Magellanic Cloud |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility |
| Category: | Paranal |
