Have you heard of a very large telescope? Is it very, very big?

Where was he, there was a very large telescope in the desert in northern Chile. It was built by the European Southern Observatory and is the most powerful in the world. We now have images of Neptune, which is several billion kilometers from Earth

Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a European telescope system. The telescope field is the flagship of European terrestrial astronomy. It consists of four telescopes with a lens diameter of 8.2 meters and four mobile auxiliary telescopes with a diameter of 1.8 meters. The binoculars can work together to create a huge "interferometer" that allows astronomers to display details up to 25 times finer than with individual binoculars

VLTs combine the light rays in a complex mirror system in underground tunnels. luminous trajectories maintained at less than 1/1000 mm within a radius of one hundred meters. With such precision, the VLT can reconstruct the microsecond image, which corresponds to the resolution of the two car headlights remote from the Moon

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(European Southern Observatory) because of the excellent conditions of observation in the Atacama desert in northern Chile

The telescope uses a laser tomograph to capture the test images of the planet and surrounding star clusters. It is the most advanced optical instrument in the world.

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) works with the GALACSI Adaptive Optics Module. This allows the binoculars to correct turbulence at different altitudes in the atmosphere, thus obtaining incredibly crisp and clear images of the universe derived from the Earth in the observatory.

MUSE is the first technology to use two adaptive optical modes: wide and narrow. Narrow Field Mode is what creates this incredible, crisp image of Neptune – Corrects almost all turbulence on binoculars

What is the difference between images with and without adaptive mode? Below you will see it in your own eyes

The difference is obvious. On the left, we see the image after turning on adaptive optics, and on the right, it is devoid of adaptive optics

The VLT makes better pictures than the Hubble telescope telescope. Again, you can compare it in the figure below.

On the left, we see the image obtained using adaptive optics, on the right, the image that Hubblov obtained from our telescope. The difference in surface imaging is that the images were not captured at the same time.

Remember that large VLT telescopes can be used individually. They have optics of such quality that they see objects up to four billion times lower than what can be seen with the naked eye.

Source Mashable, ESO