Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. But the next major step will be to combine beams from two of the telescopes creating an interferometer. The upper part of the mostly subterranean interferometer lab is the building in front of the telescope enclosure. The VLT unit telescope names have been taken from the Mapuche language . Originally thought to refer to the bright star Sirius, the word Yepun is now believed by linguists to mean Venus or evening star .
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