At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the world's most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory and two survey telescopes.

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In this case, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's 2.2m telescope at La Silla and Very Large Telescope at Paranal (both in Chile) targeted the afterglow.

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That's exactly what the ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile did recently with its brand new VLT Survey Telescope -- just a portion of the resulting inaugural image is shown above.

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