The Very Large Telescope is 25 years old — what has it found?

ESO Chasing Starlight
ESO Chasing Starlight
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The first episode of Chasing Starlight brings you the top 5 science results made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT is one of the most powerful optical telescopes on the planet and this year marks its 25th anniversary. Join ESO astronomer Suzanna Randall to learn about these results.

00:00 Introduction
01:41 Helping establish the accelerated expansion of the Universe
03:56 Observing first light from a gravitational-wave source
06:24 Studying interstellar objects
09:05 Taking the first image of an exoplanet
12:46 Confirming a supermassive compact object at the Milky Way's centre

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Credit: ESO  

Directed by: Martin Wallner, Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser
Hosted by: Suzanna Randall
Written by: Suzanna Randall, Juan Carlos Muñoz Mateos, Jonas Enander
Editing: Martin Kornmesser
Videography: Angelos Tsaousis
Footage and photos: ESO,  ESO/L. Calçada, ESO/M. Kornmesser, ESO/M. Zamani, ESO/F. Kamphues, ESO/C. Malin,
ESO/A.Tsaousis, ESO/GRAVITY, ESO/ERIS team, ESO/ R.Genzel and S. Gillessen, ESA/Hubble, spaceengine.org,
The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0, LIGO/T. Pyle , ESO/GRAVITY Collaboration, Nobel Prize Outreach.
Photo: Clément Morin, ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard), ESO/H.H.Heyer, Holger Motzkau, Wikipedia, MPE/GRAVITY team,
ESO/GRAVITY Collaboration, ESO/H. Drass et al.
Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com), Luis Calçada, videvo
Animations & Infographics:  Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida
Scientific consultant: Mariya Lyubenova
Promotion: Oana Sandu, Mafalda Martins & Davor Curic
Filming Locations: ESO Supernova (supernova.eso.org)

Produced by ESO, the European Southern Observatory (eso.org)

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