Observatory
Very Large Telescope (VLT)
ESO's optical/infrared array of four 8.2-metre telescopes at Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert.
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- Type: Observatory
- Domain: Scientific connections
Experience system V6
Observatory scientific profile
A graph-grounded scientific layout that adapts to available evidence, imagery, relations, and source coverage.
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Observe
WIKIMEDIA imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.
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Measure
Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.
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Locate
Studies The Milky Way.
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Connect
44 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.
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- Observatory
- Graph relations
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- Verified sources
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- Image records
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Scientific map
Ground context
- Studies
The Milky Way
- Operated by
European Southern Observatory
- Part of
Paranal Observatory
- Observes
Visible light
Original SVG diagram
Observation system
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- Observatory
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- Not recorded
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Visual knowledge graph
Relationships, not isolated facts
This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.
- Discovery facility for2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB b
- Discovery facility for2MASS J12073346-3932539 b
- Discovery facility forAB Pic b
- Discovery facility forAF Lep b
- Discovery facility forb Cen AB b
- Discovery facility forBarnard b
- Discovery facility forbet Pic b
- Discovery facility forCT Cha b
32 more graph links
- GQ Lup b
- HD 100546 b
- HD 135344 A b
- HD 143811 AB b
- HD 169142 b
- HD 22496 b
- HD 284149 AB b
- HD 95086 b
- HIP 65426 b
- HIP 79098 AB b
- HIP 81208 C b
- Infrared
- L 363-38 b
- Laser Guide Star
- mu2 Sco b
- MUSE
- Optical Interferometry
- Paranal Observatory
- PDS 70 b
- Reinhard Genzel
- SPHERE
- The Milky Way
- The Milky Way over Paranal
- The Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- TOI-771 c
- TYC 8998-760-1 b
- TYC 8998-760-1 c
- VHS J125601.92-125723.9 b
- Visible light
- WISPIT 1 b
- WISPIT 1 c
- WISPIT 2 b
Image provenance
Photography as evidence
Continue the atlas
Curated next objects
The Milky Way
The barred spiral galaxy that contains the Solar System, the Sun, and all stars visible to the naked eye.
organizationEuropean Southern Observatory
ESO is a 16-nation intergovernmental organisation that builds and operates major ground-based observatories in Chile, including the VLT and the future ELT.
observatoryParanal Observatory
ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert is home to the Very Large Telescope, one of the most productive ground-based facilities in astronomy.
wavelength bandVisible light
Visible light is the band the human eye sees and the traditional domain of optical telescopes.
wavelength bandInfrared
Infrared light penetrates dust and reveals cool objects — forming stars, planets, and distant galaxies.
scientific instrumentMUSE
MUSE on the VLT records a spectrum at every point in its field of view, mapping the motions and composition of galaxies.
Observation
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Data
Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
- Stable ID
observatory:very-large-telescope- Type
- Observatory
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Relationships
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- Graph version
- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/observatory:very-large-telescope
Scientific quality
Partial3 of 6 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial
- Description
- Complete
- Source coverage
- Partial
- Relationship coverage
- Complete
- Review coverage
- None
- Citation coverage
- None
- Image coverage
- Complete
- Timeline coverage
- Not applicable
Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.
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- ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.