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English: The foreground of this image shows ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The rich stellar backdrop to the picture includes the bright star Alpha Centauri, the closest stellar system to Earth. In late 2016 ESO signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the VLT instrumentation to conduct a search for planets in the Alpha Centauri system. Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative.
Français : A l’avant-plan de cette image figure le Very Large Telescope (VLT) de l’ESO installé à l’Observatoire de Paranal au Chili. Le fond du ciel est constellé de milliers d’étoiles, parmi lesquelles Alpha Centauri, le système stellaire le plus proche de la Terre. Fin 2016, l’ESO a signé un contrat avec Breakthrough Initiatives visant à adapter l’instrumentation du VLT à la recherche de planètes au sein du système Alpha Centauri. Ces planètes pourraient constituer les cibles d’éventuelles missions spatiales à venir avec des sondes miniatures lancées dans le cadre de l’initiative Breakthrough Starshot.
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Source Le Very Large Telescope et le système d’étoiles Alpha Centauri
Author Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO
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