VLT Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/vlt/ Astronomy author and speaker Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:00:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png VLT Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/vlt/ 32 32 166732936 Jawdropping new image of mystery gas cloud https://www.colinstuart.net/jawdropping-new-image-of-mystery-gas-cloud/ https://www.colinstuart.net/jawdropping-new-image-of-mystery-gas-cloud/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:00:40 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1804 Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to image the ethereal gas cloud known as CG4.   It is an example of a ‘cometary globule’ – long, stretched out clouds of gas that are reminiscent of comets. They were first discovered in 1976 and their exact nature remains elusive. The new image shows […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/jawdropping-new-image-of-mystery-gas-cloud/feed/ 0 1804 World’s largest telescope gets the green light https://www.colinstuart.net/worlds-largest-telescope-gets-the-green-light/ https://www.colinstuart.net/worlds-largest-telescope-gets-the-green-light/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:19:31 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1751 Awesome news in this morning. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) have approved the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in the arid Atacama desert in Chile. Already home to some of the world’s best telescopes, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT) just 20 km away, the South American country could see the […]

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