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Revision as of 14:16, 25 November 2002
The Very Large Telescope is an optical telescope currently under construction.
It will be located at the Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal, a 2,635-m high mountain in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
It consists of a group of large telescopes, some of which are already in operation, with a central interferometer which will be used to resolve fine features.