VLT
Britishabbreviation
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Very Large Telescope: the name of an array of four large optical telescopes located in the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean part of the Atacama Desert
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video lottery terminal: one of a network of gambling machines connected to a centralized computer system which decides the outcome of each game using a random-number generator
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By April 11, only 26 hours after the discovery, the VLT in Chile was already observing the event.
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025
The VLT is made of four large telescopes which can work together as one even more powerful telescope.
From NewsForKids.net • Feb. 28, 2024
This quasar's emission has taken a staggering 12 billion years to reach the detectors at the VLT.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
In 2019, while working with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, or VLT, in Chile, they observed Proxima Centauri to home in on Proxima b.
From The Verge • Feb. 10, 2022
A year later, another team using the VLT found a second planet—PDS 70c—slightly farther out than the first.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 22, 2021
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