Take a Stunning Aerial Tour of ESO's Big Telescopes in Chile (Video)

The first stop in the new video is the Paranal Observatory. Located 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) inland from the Chilean coast, the observatory's various telescopes together have the largest light-collecting area in the southern hemisphere. Paranal houses the Very Large Telescope (VLT), a set of four 8.2-meter telescopes operating in the visible and infrared-light wavelengths.