Very Large Telescope - Gallery

Gallery

  • Laser guide star from one of the UTs (Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2010)

  • Image showing the triplet of galaxies NGC 6769, 6770 and NGC 6771, as observed with the VIMOS instrument on Melipal

  • Huge storm on Saturn observed by ESO's Very Large Telescope

  • The Sombrero Galaxy as seen by the VLT's FORS1 instrument

  • Image of the central 5,500 light-years wide region of the spiral galaxy NGC 1097, obtained with the NACO adaptive optics on the VLT

  • One of the first images from the VIMOS facility, showing the famous "Antennae Galaxies" (NGC 4038/9)

  • ESO’s Very Large Telescope has been used to obtain this view of the nebula LHA 120-N 44 surrounding the star cluster NGC 1929

  • This picture of the dramatic nebula around the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse was created from images taken with the VLT's VISIR infrared camera

  • This picture of the star cluster and surrounding nebula NGC 371 was taken using the FORS1 instrument on the VLT

  • The 2010 Perseids over the VLT

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