VISTA

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The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. It is operated by the European Southern Observatory and started science operations in December 2009.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “VISTA (telescope)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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