European Southern Observatory
- European Southern Observatory
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▪ astrophysics organization
astrophysical organization founded in 1962. Its activities are financially supported and administered by a consortium of 13 European nations—Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. ESO's scientific, technical, and administrative headquarters are in Garching, Germany, near Munich.
ESO operates at three sites in
Chile—the La Silla Observatory, located about 600 km (370 miles) north of
Santiago at an altitude of 2,400 metres (7,900 feet), the Very Large Telescope (Paranal Observatory) on Paranal, a 2,600-metre- (8,500-foot-) high mountain about 130 km (80 miles) south of
Antofagasta, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (
ALMA) located about 50 km (30 miles) east of San Pedro de Atacama on the Chajnantor plateau at an altitude of 5,000 metres (16,000 feet). The La Silla site has six optical telescopes with diameters as large as 3.6 metres (142 inches). The Very Large Telescope facility consists of four 8.2-metre (323-inch) and four 1.8-metre (71-inch) supplementary telescopes, which were designed to be used individually or in combination as a giant interferometer. Completion of ALMA, an array of 66 12-metre (39-foot) radio telescopes, is scheduled for 2012.
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