An adaptive optics instrument normally used to search for and characterize exoplanets has obtained the sharpest images yet of a double asteroid, as it hurtled past Earth in late May. The ...

The Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) has been installed on the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in ...

Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have achieved first light with a cutting-edge adaptive optics mode for the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), designed to ...

The MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer - https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/vlt-instr/muse/) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been fitted with new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography. The telescope has achieved first light using the new optics ...