Videos illustrating the technology of telescopes and scientific instrumentation

On this page you will find videos that focus on the technology of telescopes and measuring instruments such as cameras and spectrographs. Among them are lectures, interviews and technical presentations.

The MICADO instrument for the ELT

MICADO is one of the three first instruments for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), Europe’s next-generation ground-based telescope for optical and infrared wavelengths which is currently under construction at the ESO site at Cerro Armazones in… more

The METIS instrument for the ELT

METIS is one of the three first instruments for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), Europe’s next-generation ground-based telescope for optical and infrared wavelengths which is currently under construction at the ESO site at Cerro Armazones in… more

New questions about ELT – adaptive optics – METIS

MPIA Project Managers for METIS Silvia Scheithauer and Markus Feldt answer new questions about the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), including METIS and Adaptive Optics. more

How to find planets near other stars

Since the discovery of the first extrasolar planets – planets that do not orbit our sun but a distant star – almost 30 years have passed and we have learned a lot about the diversity of these distant worlds. But what methods are used to find and… more

Planning of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) - Astronomical Instrument METIS

The path from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) leads through a series of technical and scientific advances. One of these is the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS), a tool specifically designed to… more

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