The Very Large Telescope

By StevenJDickie on Dec 25, 2024

The Very Large Telescope – or VLT – has been responsible for some of the greatest astronomical breakthroughs of all time, discoveries that have resulted in Nobel Prizes and transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The Sky at Night team travels to the heart of Chile’s Atacama Desert to explore one of the most advanced observatories in the world - a site at the forefront of ground-based optical astronomy.The Very Large Telescope, or VLT, is located at the Paranal Observatory, in the Atacama De…