Videos illustrating the technology of telescopes and scientific instrumentation

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

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

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

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

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