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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A team led by Montargès studied the star with ESO's VLT and found that a cloud of dust was instead blocking part of Betelgeuse's light.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
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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