Grand VISIR

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has recently received an upgraded addition to its suite of advanced instruments. On 21 May 2019 the newly modified instrument VISIR (VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-Infrared) made its first observations since being modified to aid in the search for potentially habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system, the closest star system to Earth.

This image shows the NEAR experiment being mounted on the Cassegrain focus of the VLT’s UT4.

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ESO/ NEAR Collaboration

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Tunnistus:eso1911c
Tyyppi:Valokuvallinen
Julkaisupäivä:10. kesäkuuta 2019 15:00
Vastaavat julkaisut:eso1911
Koko:3264 x 2448 px

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Nimi:VISIR
Tyyppi:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument
Kategoria:Paranal

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