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Monster Machines: The VISTA Telescope Camera Captures 84 Million Stars

To produce stunning images of our galaxy like this, your rinky-dink smartphone camera just isn’t going to cut it. No, to generate 9GP masterpieces, you’ll need to use the world’s largest infrared survey telescope outfitted with the world’s largest infrared camera.

10 February 2012

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These Linked Telescopes Are The Voltron Of Astronomy

How do you create the world’s largest virtual optical telescope and the most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory? Teamwork. The Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory combines the visual prowess of four huge telescopes — for the first time ever — to mimic a 130m wide mirror.

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