Juan Carlos Muñoz on Nostr: "The board is set. The pieces are moving." 🧙♂️ Much like pawns on a giant ...
"The board is set. The pieces are moving." 🧙♂️
Much like pawns on a giant #chess board, the Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO's VLT Interferometer can be moved around and arranged into different configurations.
They all point to the same target, and the light they gather is channeled into a lab where light beams interfere. This allows us to discern tiny details, as if we had a huge virtual telescope.
Here's how this works:
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/#astrodon #astronomy #space #BlackAndWhite
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