VLT

abbreviation

1. 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

2. 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

Example Sentences

By combining the new results with earlier radar data, the team determined that the asteroid is only 11 meters across, small enough to fit inside the dome of the VLT unit telescope used during the observations.

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Because the asteroid is both extremely small and faint, the team needed to wait until the object made a relatively close pass by Earth and then rely on some of the largest available telescopes, including ESO's VLT in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

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By April 11, only 26 hours after the discovery, the VLT in Chile was already observing the event.

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Using the VLT and specialized instruments, the international team captured the early behavior of the explosion.

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"The first VLT observations captured the phase during which matter accelerated by the explosion near the centre of the star shot through the star's surface. For a few hours, the geometry of the star and its explosion could be, and were, observed together," says Dietrich Baade, an ESO astronomer in Germany and co-author of the study, published on November 12 in Science Advances.

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