At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the world's most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory and two survey telescopes.
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The telescope is operated by the European Southern Observatory (Eso) organisation, which oversees the La Silla facility and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which is also in Chile.
The astronomy community has a long history of descriptive yet fairly unimaginative names - including the VLA itself, the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the yet-to-be-built European Extremely Large Telescope (the design for which was chosen over the alternative Overwhelmingly Large Telescope).
The team went on to use data from a range of other telescopes including the Very Large Telescope, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey and the Spitzer space telescope - each of which sees in a particular set of colours, in turn evidencing stars of varying ages.
Scientists made the discovery first by pinpointing their target through infrared images from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, and later using the Very Large Telescope to deduce that the object was both too small to be a star as well as hot and young enough (752F and under 120 million years old) to fit the behavior of a planet orphaned early into its existence.
Observations were made using the 3.5m New Technology Telescope and the 8.2m Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
In December, Dr Mumma's team will begin another study of the Martian surface using the new technique of adaptive optics at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
Mr Mawet and his team, meanwhile, are trying to fabricate prototypes of their design to test on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, which is at a higher altitude, and thus less prone to wobbling air.
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In this case, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's 2.2m telescope at La Silla and Very Large Telescope at Paranal (both in Chile) targeted the afterglow.
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