This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,
This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Paranal Observatory, Cerro Paranal, Chile, artwork. The four telescopes (Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun) in the large buildings make up the Very Large Telescope (VLT). These mirror telescopes have their images combined by interferometry to produce an image equal to that obtained by one 16 metre diameter mirror. By using the VLT metre auxiliary telescopes (within red circle) in different configurations astronomers have been able to produce an image equal to that obtained by a telescope almost 100 metres in diameter (the area covered by the red circle).
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