Fifteen years of the Very Large Telescope
This selection of images — one per year in the life of the VLT — gives a taste of its huge scope and scientific productivity since first light in May 1998. The images are as follows: 1998: NGC 1232 (eso9845), 1999: NGC 3603 (eso9946), 2000: Messier 104, the Sombrero Galaxy (eso0007), 2001: Messier 16 in the infrared (eso0142), 2002: the Horsehead Nebula (eso0202), 2003: NGC 613 (eso0338), 2004: first candidate exoplanet image (eso0428), 2005: NGC 1097 centre (eso0534), 2006: NGC 1313 (eso0643), 2007: ESO 593-IG 008 (eso0755), 2008: centre of the Milky Way (eso0846), 2009: the Jewel Box cluster (eso0940), 2010: Messier 17 in the infrared (potw1044a), 2011: the Eyes galaxies (eso1131), 2012: the Carina Nebula in the infrared (eso1208) and 2013: IC 2944 (eso1322).
Credit:ESO/P.D. Barthel/M. McCaughrean/M. Andersen/S. Gillessen et al./Y. Beletsky (LCO)/R. Chini/T. Preibisch
About the Image
| Id: | eso1322b |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 23 May 2013, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1322 |
| Size: | 2598 x 3071 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Composite image, Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified |
| Category: | Illustrations Paranal |
