The first Unit Telescope began operations at Paranal in 1999.

帕拉·纳尔天文台的首台ut于1999年开始工作。

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As seen from the image, this is, however, a technology now well mastered on Paranal.

不过如图所示，这项技术已经被帕拉纳尔山完全掌握。

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Cerro Paranal, in the Chilean Atacama Desert, is considered one of the best astronomical observing sites in the world.

帕拉纳尔山位于智利的阿塔·卡马沙漠地区，公认世界上最好的天文观测区域之一。

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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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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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That's exactly what the ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile did recently with its brand new VLT Survey Telescope -- just a portion of the resulting inaugural image is shown above.

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