European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of ...

Four bright lasers, the most powerful ever put on a telescope, fire into the night sky to create an artificial guide star for the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at the ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of ...

"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the ...

Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp with an image from NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian ...

Under threat: the European Southern Observatory’s flagship Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert is home to the Very Large Telescope (courtesy: G.Hüdepohl/ESO) The darkest, clearest skies ...

In contrast, images from other interferometers, such as the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), are reconstructed from computations interpolating the missing imaging information. Combining ...

Two new Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps went on sale today at the Big Sky, MT, Post Office. Customers and ...