A LEGO® interferometer!
Frans Snik’s LEGO® model of ESO’s entire Paranal platform even includes a laser that represents in miniature the complex optical system that allows the VLT Interferometer to obtain phenomenally detailed images of the most exotic objects in the Universe.
Credit:ESO/Frans Snik
About the Image
Id: | ann17038c |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 29 June 2017, 17:00 |
Related announcements: | ann17038 |
Size: | 5450 x 3417 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology |
Category: | Premises |
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