Juan Carlos MuñozNov 15, 2022

I took this pic a while back at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. It shows the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the VLT Interferometer, gazing up to the sky. These telescopes work together, achieving a spatial resolution similar to that of a massive telescope as large as the separation between them.

Curious about how this works? Check out our interferometry explainer: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/

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Interferometry

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

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@astro_jcm thank you. this is so beautiful.

wherever is see or hear of telescopes working together to build one picture of the vastness, i wish we could set up systems to do this for all fields instead of 50,000 data systems and dashboards trying to describe the same phenomena.

let's dismantle the #infodemic #InformationOverload before it gets worse

Nov 15, 2022 at 9:55amWeb