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Stunning images from Very Large Telescope capture unique views of planet formation

Very Large Telescope snaps gorgeous shot of Milky Way's star-studded core (photo)

The Extremely Large Telescope’s Dome is on the Move

What Could the Extremely Large Telescope See at Proxima Centauri's Planet?

Distant nebula looks like fleeing turkey in festive new Very Large Telescope photo

Scientists bury time capsule to celebrate upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (photos)

A New Planet-Hunting Instrument Has Been Installed on the Very Large Telescope

Very Large Telescope surprisingly finds exoplanet lurking in 3-body star system

Very Large Telescope photographs its lightest ever exoplanet

First image of an exoplanet — courtesy of the Very Large Telescope, European Southern Observatory, in 2004 — shows an exoplanet orbiting brown dwarf 2M1207

Need a Project? You can Build a Paper Model of the Extremely Large Telescope

Asteroid Explodes Over Canada, Artemis I Updates, Very Large Telescope Improvements

A New Instrument Gives the Very Large Telescope an Even Sharper View of the Cosmos

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) has received an infrared eye upgrade (Credit: ESO/ERIS team)

A New View of the Cone Nebula From the Very Large Telescope

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Focuses on Messier 61

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest & sharpest images of the region around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The new images zoom in 20 times more than what was possible before the VLTI.

Very Large Telescope uncovers closest pair of supermassive black holes yet

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, astronomers discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how it influences the motion of a star in its close vicinity. This is the first time this method has been used to reveal a black hole outside of our galaxy.